mattnewport comments on Ureshiku Naritai - Less Wrong

119 Post author: Alicorn 08 April 2010 08:08PM

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Comment author: mattnewport 09 April 2010 09:11:30PM 1 point [-]

Mostly like it for comedy value, but I think there is an element of truth.

Comment author: RobinZ 09 April 2010 09:16:39PM *  1 point [-]

I would agree, on reflection.

Edit: I am curious if we see the same element, however. It seems to me that that element is aptly summarized as "writing a program that cannot fail spectacularly when used by someone who doesn't understand it is a tremendous challenge - one which is necessary to face, but one which has stood against the combined best efforts of at least a generation of programmers."