Comment Re:Trends or Crutches? (Score 2, Insightful) 345
Did you walk uphill in the snow, both ways, when you were a kid, too? At one point in time, high-level languages like ASSEMBLER were considered crutches for people who weren't Real Programmers. Get some perspective!
Look, people make mistakes, and regardless of how good a programmer you are, there is a limit to the amount of state you can hold in your head, and you WILL dereference a NULL pointer, or create a reference loop, at some point in your career.
Using a computer to catch these errors is just another flavor of metaprogramming. Get over it, and go be more productive with these tools, instead of whining for the days when you coded on bare metal with your bare hands and you liked it.
Arrgh.
Look, people make mistakes, and regardless of how good a programmer you are, there is a limit to the amount of state you can hold in your head, and you WILL dereference a NULL pointer, or create a reference loop, at some point in your career.
Using a computer to catch these errors is just another flavor of metaprogramming. Get over it, and go be more productive with these tools, instead of whining for the days when you coded on bare metal with your bare hands and you liked it.
Arrgh.
