On Sunday, April 18, 2021 at 8:06:39 PM UTC-5 Gary Johnson wrote:
> On 2021-04-18, Felipe Contreras wrote: > > Thanks for understanding. > > > > No, I don't understand. > > > > Any software developer doing things exactly the same as 10 years ago is > a bad > > software developer, let alone 30 years ago. > > That's just plain not true. A idea that was good 10 or even 30 > years ago may be just as good today. Ideas are good or bad because > they're good or bad, not because they're new or old. To think that > a new idea is better than an old one simply because it is new is > foolish. > This is such a profound misrepresentation of what I said that I need to explain with numbers. If 100 things have changed since the past 10 years, I said if you do *exactly* 100 things the same as 10 years ago, you are a bad software developer. You misrepresented what I said as: you must do 0 things the same as 10 years ago, which isn't what I said. Yes, ideas are good or bad intrinsically, not because of novelty or tradition (two fallacies), *but* chances are that if you do ZERO of 100 new things, you are doing something wrong. > > It literally takes less than 30 minutes to learn git. That's no excuse. > > That's not true, either. While basic git operations are reasonably > straightforward, anything beyond the basics is horribly obscure and > inconsistent. > Wrong. It depends on the operation. The operation of: 1. creating a feature branch, 2. applying a patch series, 3. merge that patch series with custom modifications, takes less than 10 minutes to learn. That is a fact. It's actually easier than whatever Bram is doing right now. -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_dev/740c8783-3367-4a5c-966c-cdd3c149fd33n%40googlegroups.com.
