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Tech Geezers vs. Young Bloods
Lam1969 writes "Robert Mitchell talks about how technology is dividing him from younger generations: "The technologies I've watched grow have shaped an entire culture of which I am not a part." Adds Dinosaur: "Ask them [members of the younger generation] HOW the things work, and they have no idea. They are really riding on the backs of the 'old folks' like us that built the goodies they enjoy.""
"Old people don't need companionship. They need to be isolated and studied so that it can be determined what nutrients they have that might be extracted for our personal use."
Old People are no good at everything
yeah, why aren't we recovering the phosphorus from dead people (Huxley style!) yet?
With all this new fangled Evolution and stuff, we all ought to have as many children as possible as soon as we're physically capable of it, and eat our husbands and old people. But Nooo, that's canniblism, or a "social problem". Look how well the insects are doing, on the other hand.
That is the point these whiners miss.
People shouldn't need to understand how things work. They just should.
In fact today it is nearly impossible for someone to actually know everything about any non trivial item.
But that's a good thing, we've gotten to the point where the infrastructure and exisitng technology is so reliable that we can basically ignore it and move on to new areas, and expand our knowledge rather than continuosly reinventing what we know.
Functions give you just as much ignorance if you want it. Just call C qsort() and you never need to care what makes a good sorting algorithm. There do seem to be more ignorant programmers nowadays, but I think that's just because there are more programming jobs and the same number of "real programmers", and not a problem with OOP per se.
I am trolling