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Re:Don't Learn to Code, Learn to Program – But Come Back in ... by asdasf on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @04:34PM (#7186955)
Why 10 years? Given that we've known what a mess the software development world is for 50 years and nothing has improved, what makes you think anything will be better 10 years from now?
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Re:Don't Learn to Code, Learn to Program – But Come Back in ... by tbirdz on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @04:53PM (#7187103)
Might be a reference to the famous Norvig essay: "Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years"?
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Re:Don't Learn to Code, Learn to Program – But Come Back in ... by john-kurkowski on Friday February 07, 2014 @06:57PM (#7199609)
No, I'm not that clever. It seemed like a reasonable time to check back in and see if the revolution happened.
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