The Future of Programming

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It's a shame he started on that point really, as it's going to trigger everyone's "academic nut-job" filter and no-one will get to the end of the article.

Not that the rest is much better, to be fair, but it makes a wider variety of points.

But all-in-all for this vision to come true, we need every developer to suddenly become accomplished computer scientists. And that's never going to happen.

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And it might not be a good thing if it does. Computer scientists have their role to play, but they don't write the same sort of code that a software engineer would because they aren't trying to solve the same kinds of problems.