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Tim Bray deleted his commentary on his own site, leaving only the
quote, so you'll have to go off what's here. Anyway... Tim, up in the
this air where people make new languages like XML, is shocked (shocked,
I tell you!) to read that there are function of programming that are
"mind-numbing". Not only are they mind-numbing, but most of the low end
of the salary spectrum does nothing but those kinds of task all day
long. Welcome to the quite desperation of someone who works for a
living.
At best, I could read that as Tim misinterpreting the quote as saying that all code-writing is mind-numbing.
Coding Makes You Dumb. I quote from an article in this week’s Economist (read it here
if you’re a subscriber) arguing that the negative impact of
“Offshoring� is exaggerated. The reasons we need not worry include ...
the bulk of these exports will not be the high-flying jobs of IT
consultants, but the mind-numbing functions of code-writing. There
you have it; I guess Dennis Ritchie and Bill Joy and Dave Cutler and
Charles Simonyi and Linus Torvalds and Larry Wall somehow managed to
conceal the mental numbing. [ongoing]
7:35:51 AM 
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