On Sat, Jun 04, 2022 at 10:42:31AM -0400, Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many wrote:
everybody is using reactjs
This is what I mean. They're not even using an actual language. They're assembling parts. Dewar and Schonberg's discussion of Java is illustrative: "The irresistible beauty of programming consists in the reduction of complex formal processes to a very small set of primitive operations. Java, instead of exposing this beauty, encourages the programmer to approach problem-solving like a plumber in a hardware store: by rummaging through a multitude of drawers (i.e. packages) we will end up finding some gadget (i.e. class) that does roughly what we want. How it does it is not interesting! The result is a student who knows how to put a simple program together, but does not know how to program." https://web.archive.org/web/20190210212517/http://www.crosstalkonline.org/st... -- . ___ ___ . . ___ . \ / |\ |\ \ . _\_ /__ |-\ |-\ \__