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Whippersnapper. I grew up in Montana back when winters were severe. I did walk to school—about 25 feet as my parents drove me.

None of what you seem to think about my rant represents what my position is. Read my other note in my thread about the NYT article concerning Knuth and Norvig’s commentary. There is a time today for total deep dive. There is skill involved to do this and wisdom when to do this.

There are folks who write with minimal libraries cf qmail.

What seems to be completely missing from today’s discourse about programming is something dijksata said about interrupts. Paraphrasing “If you don’t see the code on the page in front of you, you will make mistakes. “

Take a look at modern Java. Levels of abstraction in use require serious deep dive to truly know what is going on. There is a famous Node package issue where code that wasn’t even on your computer crashed a swath of applications.

Quality in the context of the article means the code is pleasing to read, doesn’t crash unexpectedly and doesn’t have side effects that you may only discover when Brian krebs emails you about your customer’s data ending up in some remote online flea market