Re:How I Program Stuff
by wladimir on Tuesday January 17, 2012 @06:04AM
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Yes. There is an essential chasm there.
Treating people like computers/code means you are a sociopath, and treating code like people means you won't get it to do anything. Code needs control, not empathy.
We programmers are stuck in the middle, pulled by either extreme.
I wonder if we will bridge that gap in the 21th century (and how?). To me, it is a much more worthy goal then "making the damn things even faster and smaller" (but, see also my reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3474387).
Treating people like computers/code means you are a sociopath, and treating code like people means you won't get it to do anything. Code needs control, not empathy.
We programmers are stuck in the middle, pulled by either extreme.
I wonder if we will bridge that gap in the 21th century (and how?). To me, it is a much more worthy goal then "making the damn things even faster and smaller" (but, see also my reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3474387).