Comment Re:oh i agree... (Score 1) 608
When in fact, every one of those hammers is meant to be used by the layman! It takes experience (10,000 hours, some say) to become expert with any one of them!
Or to look at it another way, I can pick up a peening hammer and whack a nail in with it just fine. Wrong tool, wrong job, but I can make it work with almost zero instruction.
By contrast, I can't even tell you how to install modern programming environment, let alone how to program even BAD software with one! BASIC on the 8-bit computers was the opposite. Doing nothing more After hours (maybe minutes) of dicking with someone else's program in a magazine, after doing nothing more than turning on the device, you were able to create some interesting programs of your own!