People who disagree aren't trying to make things complex

Re:People who disagree aren't trying to make things complex by dmreedy on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @04:20PM (#18658998)

Agreed, there's definitely a continuum as you go lower down the stack; in the same way that the first programmers were often electrical engineers (with due deference to Ada Lovelace).

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Re:People who disagree aren't trying to make things complex by kens on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @04:58PM (#18659336)

Are you thinking of any early electrical engineer programmers in particular? The impression I got was that early programmers for scientific applications were largely mathematicians and scientists (e.g. Hopper, Turing, ENIAC programmers, von Neumann), while business programming was more office / business people.

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Re:People who disagree aren't trying to make things complex by dmreedy on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @05:29PM (#18659597)

Fair; I'm thinking of people like (from disparate periods) Ivan Sutherland, Doug Englebart, Claude Shannon, and so on; folks who came out of EE educations but became computer engineers or computer scientists in practice (and sort of by post-hoc definition)

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