3 Jun
2013
3 Jun
'13
12:23 p.m.
On Mon, 3 Jun 2013, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 06/03/2013 02:41 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
Hey, whatever it takes!
Oh man. The current generation of ruby-and-javascript humping
"programmers" fresh out of their expensive university edumacation telling
that taught them "all they need to know about how to program a
computer"...I could 100% see them using tablets and some goofy "drag and drop
multitouch Integrated
Development Environment that stores your code in The Cloud?"
This would be one of the funniest sights I'd ever see!
I live
in a VERY high-tech
area and even I don't see stuff like that given away. (well, actually,
thinking about that a bit more...There are "clueful" people around here;
stuff like C2D machines are more likely to be found running Linux or NetBSD
around here.)
It's rare and I got lucky. Also, I think some people recognise my name
from my written stuff. (Pimps new article:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/03/thank_microsoft_for_linux_desktop_f…
)
Very well-written as always, but this time I couldn't get past the first
paragraph. I have great difficulty imagining a day when I could do my job on
a tablet.
The press (as a whole) really needs to understand that "what sells best in
department stores" does not define the entirety of, or even a significant
part of, society's computing activities. Everything is WAY too tainted by
journalists' personal (and sometimes myopic) points of view, something that
journalism is, well, sorta supposed to be about not doing.
But either way...fantastic writing, as always.
-Dave
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