Re:Malleable Systems: Software must be as easy to change as ...
by denster on Monday April 13, 2020 @04:59PM
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200% agreed.
I learned to develop software [1] before the interwebs, where we would just kind-of hack things together in C/Unix. Manuals were our only (& best!) friend.
I then went to uni for a CS degree, and they had a very "holy grail" attitude about the whole affair.
I agree that:
1) an apprentice system would work better
2) we have got to get more powerful tooling out there, into people's hands
[2] I'm still reminded of a world where the bridge between creating & using software was much smaller (not to mention, user interfaces were much snappier!) Here's a virtual toast to hoping we can one day come back to that reality.
I learned to develop software [1] before the interwebs, where we would just kind-of hack things together in C/Unix. Manuals were our only (& best!) friend.
I then went to uni for a CS degree, and they had a very "holy grail" attitude about the whole affair.
I agree that:
1) an apprentice system would work better 2) we have got to get more powerful tooling out there, into people's hands
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[1] founder of https://mintdata.com here, which makes me biased on the above
[2] I'm still reminded of a world where the bridge between creating & using software was much smaller (not to mention, user interfaces were much snappier!) Here's a virtual toast to hoping we can one day come back to that reality.