Citindu-mi Reader-ul 🙂 am gasit o cearta excelenta: “Ce s-a intamplat cu programarea?” si continuarea “Nu-i chiar asa de rau” (prin Slashdot). La baza sta si declaratia lui Knuth: “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.”, iar, in mare, e vorba despre programarea moderna si cam cat de pictisitoare devine, prin timpul alocat mixarii de librarii – nu foarte compatibile – cu copy/paste si apoi gadilarea lor pana se inteleg si functioneaza.

Today, I mostly paste libraries together.  So do you, most likely, if you work in software.  Doesn’t that seem anticlimactic?  We did all those courses on LR grammars and concurrent software and referentially transparent functional languages.  We messed about with Prolog, Lisp and APL.  We studied invariants and formal preconditions and operating system theory.  Now how much of that do we use?

Ca iubitor si practicant al programarii, tind sa fiu de acord cu ideea generala a articolului si e garantat ca tema va aduce multe opinii si intrebari despre cum s-a ajuns aici, ce putem face, cat de mult e adevarat si alte chestii mai mult sau mai putin relevante. Gramada de discutii pe Slashdot, HackerNews si Reddit.