Dependence on Programming Experts

GregSmith brucegregory at earthlink.net
Thu Jul 6 02:58:01 EDT 2006


Jacqueline:

The real question that needs to be answered is, why now, with the tools of
today, like Squeak or Croquet, would I want to resort to "coding" using the
grunts and groans of yesteryear?  I'm sorry for those many years you and
others have toiled away trying to master those alien techniques "required"
to make a machine do relatively simple things.  I don't have a lot of years
left to start from the point people like you started at many years ago.  We
should have come farther by now and should not be satisfied with anything
other than those tools which save us the most time and energy.  I made no
insult to any person by suggesting that standard "programming" is the
equivalent of communication using a series of grunts and groans.  The fact
that inventors of "modern" computer languages do not see beyond those
methods which have already spent the lives of millions of deskbound slaves
really constitutes the major technological insult.  It is the required use
of languages like these that force users like us to become "dumbed down". 
Need we submit to this kind of humiliation?

Greg Smith
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