My point was that you should not regard attempts to journey further afield into other disciplines that don't produce an immediate result as a failure. The author got quite a...

I think that the author is being a little hard on himself just because he didn't strike gold on that occasion, but is correct in pointing out that mining is...

There's nothing wrong with doing the job right. But when the tools become too complicated to grasp and use intuitively, and to learn progressively without having to learn a series...

Sir Slicendice. Do you have any empirical data to support your claims? Or are you relying on anecdotal 'evidence'? Or.. are you simply defining the programmer type by their language...

Thoroughly agree with the ZA Crafty. One of the reasons that the citizen programmer is needed today is because the entry bar has been lifted too high by people who...