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by 082349872349872 2171 days ago
Eloi don't need to learn programming: "[by] the time you became truly proficient at programming, chances are that whatever you set out to write would be available in some form from a software publisher."

Morlocks might want to learn programming, not because it's useful for eating Eloi, but because they're the sort of people for whom "purchasing an automobile for a cross-country trip [and] first [studying] cartography, then [proceeding] to obtain aerial and satellite photographs of the proposed route, and finally [drawing] a detailed map for the whole journey" sounds like a brilliant yak shave.

(Sandberg-Diment has left out the parts where obtaining the satellite photographs involves SDR hacking into downlink telemetry and drawing the detailed map first requires implementing a geometric-algebra based direct-to-framebuffer renderer)