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by lausobo 3841 days ago
Hi, author here. Thanks for your comment.

>>The computer shifted the complexity of our solutions from the world of atoms to the world of ideas. >And that's fucking awesome! Thanks everyone that was part in making that a reality!

I glad you are entertained with programming. I am too! but we should judge a tool like programming by its productivity, not by it's entertaining powers.

> We can create things as complex as we can logically describe them.

One of my points is that we can't. To make a single app facebook needs hundreds of engineers and it is still buggy. Humans are, yet again, the weaker link in software engineering. I believe we need fundamentally better tools.

> It's also incredibly difficult to create something that will acomodate everyone else's solutions.

Agreed. I'd very happy with a tool that is not general purpose that could churn though CRUD systems (vast majority of systems our there) in a matter of hours without errors. If you want to something else like AI, or games or whathaveyou, use other tools built specifically for that or a programming language if none are available.

That CRUD tool (gross oversimplification) could be expanded with new capabilities as long as we understand those new capabilities properly.

> Saying programming sucks and wishfull thinking does not help anyone. Not happy? Start hacking on the next thing!

I am, thanks for the encouragement.