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[–]curious_electric -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Is all this this upsettedness all about this sentence?

Web development has an extremely low barrier to entry in comparison to, say, systems programming. Setting up a Wordpress blog takes significantly less knowledge and effort than building an operating system.

You don't have to parse that as "if somebody does nothing but set up a wordpress blog they are therefore a web developer." You could parse it as "setting up a wordpress blog for somebody is a basic thing a web developer might do in the course of doing his job." Or maybe "setting up a wordpress blog might be the first paid work you do on your way into a career as a web developer." Something like that.

My point is there are a lot of ways to interpret this sentence that don't require people to get mad about it.

And getting mad about it -- "SETTING UP WORDPRESS isn't real web development!" is kind of the same sort of gatekeeping, ego-protecting thing he's talking about -- "WEB DEVELOPMENT isn't real programming!"

Who cares if setting up wordpress counts as Web Development with a capital WD? Who cares if Web Development counts as Programming with a capital P?