> why not?
> why not dominate the indsutry!! using free software!!!!!!
> prolog better!!
> logic can maybe even be used to show the most profitable alternatives!!
Well , that's exactly it .
You want to "dominate" an industry .
You want some grand and significant achievement .
Since you can't make it yourself , you are a sucker for the pitch .
The pitch is provided to you by manufacturers of grand and signficant achievements . It is the same pitch that the manufacturers use to obtain venture captital .
If you want to be a good computer programmer , then you learn how to do test-driven development , you spend lots of time making foolish mistakes , and you learn to see beauty in your small achievements .
And guess what you have to spend A LOT of time doing ?
Making computer programs .
Got any Forth examples for me ?
If you want to be a bad computer programmer , then you read industry rags like published by the Gartner group , you make flowcharts and UML diagrams with fancy tools , you talk bizspeak and you seek power and acclaim by associating yourself with what you think are grand and important new solutions .
You can turn that into a good paycheque .
It works like this :
Go work at some mediocre but big company .
Alienate the real computer programmers with your ineptitude .
Associate yourself with management .
Become an advisor to management .
After 5 years you can become an "architect" .
Now you will be able to put all you have learned from reading about all those cluster-fuck big-data solutions you have been reading about to very good use .
Help management make decisions about what technology is used for the next big solution .
Make all of those decisions without consulting the real computer programmers .
The real computer programmers are just workers , stupid technicians , they do what they are told .
Drown them in a waterfall .
> prolog better!!
> logic can maybe even be used to show the most profitable alternatives!!
Why is everything a war , a competition ?
"Java sucks - prolog is better !!!"
It is ridiculous to say that Java sucks .
Java is almost certainly the most successful software development platform in the history of humanity .
But it is not ridiculous to say that Java sucks if that helps you feel like you don't suck .
I don't think you suck .
Just remember that you are awesome .
~~ kintalken ~~