That insight helped me calm down quite a bit. Because noobs are being produced faster than best practices can percolate. Per Mark Twain's quip about lies racing half-way around the world before truth can get its pants on, every generation thinking they invented sex, and how people are generally emotionally attached to their first notions (no matter how wrong).
(So if your introduction to computing is thru Python, PHP, JavaScript or whatever, it's super hard to see their flaws, or to appreciate what their precedents were trying to achieve.)
http://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2014/06/20/MyLawn.html
That insight helped me calm down quite a bit. Because noobs are being produced faster than best practices can percolate. Per Mark Twain's quip about lies racing half-way around the world before truth can get its pants on, every generation thinking they invented sex, and how people are generally emotionally attached to their first notions (no matter how wrong).
(So if your introduction to computing is thru Python, PHP, JavaScript or whatever, it's super hard to see their flaws, or to appreciate what their precedents were trying to achieve.)