Whatever Happened To Programming?

Posted by kdawson on Saturday March 6, 2010 @04:26PM from the you-had-zeros? dept.

Mirk writes "In a recent interview, Don Knuth wrote: 'The way a lot of programming goes today isn't any fun because it's just plugging in magic incantations — combine somebody else's software and start it up.' The Reinvigorated Programmer laments how much of our 'programming' time is spent pasting not-quite-compatible libraries together and patching around the edges." This 3-day-old article has sparked lively discussions at Reddit and at Hacker News, and the author has responded with a followup and summation.

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Re:Idiot. Seriously. by clarkkent09 · 2010-03-06 17:03 · Score: 0, Redundant

Not to mention that he can't grasp the awesome power of 300 APIs (sorry, "technologies") each with three letter abbreviation names starting with J that make up the resume of a typical Java programmer.

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