I don't know whether the mods were on crack or something that the parent was modded "interesting" but anyways here goes my explanation.
It has already been mentioned that CS is not a programming degree. As the parent just said any person can learn a bit of programming over a few months and become an 'expert' in a programming language but can such a person be expected to make changes to the programming language itself. When the parent calls the changes that programming languages have seen as 'cosmetic' he just supports my statement (that Programmers should not be expected to do a CS guys' job and vice versa). These 'cosmetic' changes are actually soundly based on either hardware or software engineering principles.
Yes, over many years experienced programmers can pick up some aspects of CS knowledge and so can a construction worker pick up civil engineering knowledge but that doesn't mean that civil engineering should be ended. It's basically to cut those many years that a formal course has been introduced in the first place.
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I don't know whether the mods were on crack or something that the parent was modded "interesting" but anyways here goes my explanation.
It has already been mentioned that CS is not a programming degree. As the parent just said any person can learn a bit of programming over a few months and become an 'expert' in a programming language but can such a person be expected to make changes to the programming language itself. When the parent calls the changes that programming languages have seen as 'cosmetic' he just supports my statement (that Programmers should not be expected to do a CS guys' job and vice versa). These 'cosmetic' changes are actually soundly based on either hardware or software engineering principles.
Yes, over many years experienced programmers can pick up some aspects of CS knowledge and so can a construction worker pick up civil engineering knowledge but that doesn't mean that civil engineering should be ended. It's basically to cut those many years that a formal course has been introduced in the first place.