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Comment Re:We're going the wrong direction (Score 1) 253

(with the help of an electronic translator, hope this is readable)

I'm just fully agree with you.

they are probably working at the wrong level of abstraction

Abstraction is a smart way of programming, but coding that way must not preclude a developer to take into account the management of the "mechanics", such as resource management (memory, disk space, etc..). The next generation of developers (<30 years) studied with Java, Python and other high level languages that discharge them of many tedious tasks. The downside to this approach is that it "disconnects" the developer of the system's internal functionning, which drives developers to lose the habit, among other, of monitoring the consumption of resources.

The object of all software development is mainly to manage resources to achieve a goal. Low skills in terms of mutlithread programming and design for today's developers in an era of multi-core processor aptly illustrates this fact.

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