I understand what the guy is saying, but this is equivalent to art students discussing the technicality and construction of canvases. Even if you select the best canvas in the world, it does not make your painting better.
I think that too much of writing about programming is focused on the details of the programming act, and too little on the result of the programming.
Reading about finding and learning a programming language is like reading about an artist choosing a brush. Reading about the technical details of someone scaling a Django app on a single server to serve 1000 concurrent requests per second is like seeing the finished artwork.
> Reading about finding and learning a programming language is like reading about an artist choosing a brush.
Wands are a much better metaphor to make. Or perhaps, what if you had a magic brush that could at any time be extremely fine or large or anywhere in between depending on how you felt? That would be some brush, especially when you compare it to the many medium sized brushes which aren't so fine when you need them to be.
Okay, so maybe the metaphor is still stretching a bit, but these are no ordinary brushes; they are worth writing about.
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I understand what the guy is saying, but this is equivalent to art students discussing the technicality and construction of canvases. Even if you select the best canvas in the world, it does not make your painting better.
I think that too much of writing about programming is focused on the details of the programming act, and too little on the result of the programming.
Reading about finding and learning a programming language is like reading about an artist choosing a brush. Reading about the technical details of someone scaling a Django app on a single server to serve 1000 concurrent requests per second is like seeing the finished artwork.
> Reading about finding and learning a programming language is like reading about an artist choosing a brush.
Wands are a much better metaphor to make. Or perhaps, what if you had a magic brush that could at any time be extremely fine or large or anywhere in between depending on how you felt? That would be some brush, especially when you compare it to the many medium sized brushes which aren't so fine when you need them to be.
Okay, so maybe the metaphor is still stretching a bit, but these are no ordinary brushes; they are worth writing about.