Re: OT: The Geek defense

On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:19:18 GMT, "Michael Mattias"
<mmattias@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>However, many of the modern development tools/environments allow 
>"developers"  to create applications without ever learning those 
>fundamentals. A few clicks, a few drags, a few drops and presto! you can 
>call yourself a programmer.
>
>With no such tools available, people of our generation HAD to learn the 
>fundamentals, so for us changing languages or development environments is

>pretty straightforward... except when we find ourselves in one of these 
>newfangled IDEs where fundamentals don't matter.

Of course, each generation redefines "fundamentals" in industries that
change.   Back in the day, people said that if you only knew assembly
language, you missed the fundamentals of machine language.   Then
compilers came along.

Fundamentals such as using manual transmissions "don't matter" to most
drivers today.