[Info-vax] Python for x86?

[Scott Dorsey]

Simon Clubley  <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
>On 2023-04-14, bill <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 4/14/2023 1:46 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>> 
>>> My point is that Python has a major thing going for it in that it is
>>> relatively easy to learn and use by people who are not professional
>>> programmers or professional sysadmins. 
>>
>> And if all there was to programming was syntax that might be a good
>> thing.  But it isn't and having all these totally unqualified asses
>> writing "programs" is certainly not a good thing.
>>
>
>That is a totally out of touch and _extremely_ elitist thing to say Bill.
>
>We are talking about applications and areas that have skilled domain
>knowledge experts, but who are not computer programmers. What you
>appear to be saying is that these people are not allowed to use their
>expertise until they become C or C++ experts.

I don't think it is elitist or out of touch at all.

25 years ago, those skilled domain knowledge experts would be sitting down
with a programmer and telling the programmer what they wanted, and the 
programmer would be saying things like "Would it be okay if we did it in
THIS order because it would be faster?" and things like "If this value is
zero, it's not going to work, so will this ever be zero?"  There would be
a team with the programmer and the subject matter expert.

Now more likely we have SMEs writing code and I hate to say it but this is
often a very very bad idea.  "It's okay, I can use Matlab for the database
engine!"  I wish I were joking about that but I am not.
--scott

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