Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!.POSTED.njEUZDpERlFkQgEkTVJOLQ.user.gioia.aioe.org!not-for-mail From: Louis Valence Newsgroups: comp.programming Subject: Re: What is the current state-of-the-art? Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2019 23:54:14 -0300 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 27 Message-ID: <86r24qdvs9.fsf@example.com> References: <3a72a169-3ce4-498f-a5e3-dd21cc318b1a@googlegroups.com> <86r24rv5mi.fsf@example.com> <36e07578-b7ae-4755-b7d7-ed054066b9e5@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: njEUZDpERlFkQgEkTVJOLQ.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (windows-nt) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:mnAI9h5LerSMHCc/0YXpKfl8Y5U= Xref: csiph.com comp.programming:10187 Mark Rosenblitt-Janssen writes: >> > What happened to the internet I used to know? >> >> The Internet we used to know was built by and populated by a much more >> coherent community, but, as it turned out, the Internet is great for >> commerce and consumption, so now the Internet is full of consumers. The >> typical consumer is not very skilled; the older generation, that built >> this Internet, is probably a bit old by now too. Many are dead. We're >> probably the ones left. > > Don't you think the Free software community was built for this, too? Sorry. Built for what? [...] >> You talk to a computer science student nowadays and they ``surely >> learned their c programming language'', but never heard of Dennis >> Ritchie or Brian Kernighan, nor have read the book. They prefer to >> learn from badly written essays and poorly crafted paragraphs. It makes >> no sense. > > For sure, ask a Javascripter: What is the binary digit for one? They > think it's a trick question. We should not underestimate cluelessness.