MAMEWorld Forums - Programming - Re: Excellent article on unfortunate trends

> > If you're studying or teaching software development, you should definitely read
> this.
> > It's time people woke up to what's going on.
> >
> > http://www.stsc.hill.af.mil/CrossTalk/2008/01/0801DewarSchonberg.html
>
> My Uncle said something similar to this to me nearly 15 years ago as I was getting
> out of school. In a sense, he was telling me that I was good and talented at what I
> did, but that I wasn't a REAL programmer. All I did was use someone else's knowledge
> to figure things out and used their tools to put it all together.
>
> In part, I agreed with him as long as we changed it to the fact that I was a
> different "style" programmer from him and not that I wasn't a real programmer.
> Hey...I did (and liked) assembly! It's just easier to put one little line of code
> then all the garbled assembly code.
>
> ArcadeGamenut

I don't know about you personally, but there are a lot of graduates these who don't have a real understanding of the theory behind what they're doing. Because of this, they can't effectively design for performance, scalability or reliability. They can build small entities, but not large systems. They can't debug memory corruption or concurrency issues. I could rant forever. But I think software will continue to become slower, more bloated and more buggy until the industry and educators wake up (which may never happen).