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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2025 19:27:12 +0000
Organization: A little, after lunch
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On 08/02/2025 17:59, D wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sat, 8 Feb 2025, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> 
>> On 08/02/2025 07:36, WokieSux282@ud0s4.net wrote:
>>> IMHO, a lot of this is just "busy work" from
>>>    people looking for something to do. Their
>>>    idea of "better" means "better for ME - and
>>>    screw YOU". It's not better for the average,
>>>    or even professional, user.
>>
>> In my careers - I have had several - us Engineers were humble 
>> creatures who wrote clean workmanlike well documented and tested code 
>> in the hope that no one would ever have to write it again, and if they 
>> did, it would be instantly understandable. Code was. to quote my 
>> friend 'Higgy',  'all just bits, in silicon'.
>>
>> Later I encountered computer scientists who spoke a strange language 
>> with artistic terms in it like 'elegance' 'intellectual purity' 
>> 'algorithmic efficiency'  'Turing complete' 'object oriented' and 
>> other words that seemed to have nothing whatever to do with actually 
>> writing testing and debugging clean code that met the spec and worked 
>> in a timescale less than eternity...
>>
>> I decided they were all frustrated ArtStudents™ with Physics envy who 
>> could not  do HardSums™
> 
> Haha, brilliant!
> 
>> And should never be let anywhere near a critical project.
> 
> I am fascinated by the fact that when it comes to programming, there can 
> be an enormous disconnect between academic programmers, and a guy in his 
> room who just pounded out the code and got the work done.
> 
> I'm not saying he did it in the most "elegant" way or the best 
> documented way, but I do claim that in many instances, the guy without 
> the official training is able to do it.
> 
> Reminds me of when I went to university. I often had to help the A 
> students with their practical assignments, and I got it done. On the 
> theory part however, they were always the A students.

There is computer science, and there is software engineering.
Textbooks on software engineering are worth reading

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