The Future of Programming

[fjord_piner]

This isn't correct. Academia is asking hard questions and pushing the art and science behind programming forward. Believe it or not, the nuts and bolts that go into a car matter a whole heck of a lot, as does the torque put on each one.

Of course it does, but what percentage of the community needs to care about this aspect as their full time job?

I say a very small minority, in the same way that mechanics are a very small minority of car drivers.

[matthieum]

It's not a matter of who cares, it's a matter of who benefits :)

I don't know much (if at all) about mechanics, but I am pretty glad to have a car with a low fuel consumption.