2012/1/27 Nicolas Cellier <[email protected]>: > 2012/1/27 dimitris chloupis <[email protected]>: >> This article is really encapsulates the attitude and what is wrong with >> programming in general. The attitude of superiority and intelligence that >> seems to plague coders and being the biggest obstacle to progress. And what >> biggest proof of lack of progress than the fact that Lips is probably the >> very best that programming languages have to offer. 40 year old technology, >> how sad that is ? Actually if there is one thing thats driving the coding >> community is lack of enthusiasm, is about sticking to what is already there >> , is the fact of being "practical" and "realistic" about code in general. >> How much progress we have seen the last 40 years ? Sure its alot , but what >> happens if you take games out of it , how much hardware would have progress >> ? How much software ? Very little. >> > > Sure arrogance and exclusion are not welcome, I wish no one feel > intimidated in Smalltalk community. > Smalltalk should remain a vector of learning. > I wish intelligence were a plague, alas, I had the impression that > miss-consideration of intelligence was :) > But your words certainly did not mean that. > >> If you take out games that exercise a clear push to graphics and processing >> power and complex data manipulation approaches , AI and many other things , >> the rest of software out there , if you remove some exceptions here and >> there, is the same boring stuff which makes you wait for a year to add a >> single feature you need with a dozen more you don't need. >> >> Its not enthusiasm that drives coding, its money and profit. >> > > Is it only driving coding? > Are our own profits just measured by money? > Isn't there any such thing as a group profit? > >> Then we arrive at the open source phenomenon, which I agree its great and >> amazing and where exciting stuff really happens. But even open has some >> major issue to resolve. First is to anyone surprise is that all that open >> source is rarely used and recycled, most open source projects seem to start >> from scratch , rarely using source from other projects. And then of course >> there is the big issue of licence , its open source, but its not really open >> ... GPL as an example of a licence driving open source back instead of >> forward. >> > > But redoing is essential in human activities. That's how we learn. If > we fail to redo, then we forget our parents knowledge, and finally > loose the skills. > > Nicolas
I forgot one last thing, GPL does not prevent to redo, it prevents form preventing to redo :) Nicolas
