Programming For The Rest Of Us...

An interesting discussion has twittered by and flowed on to Oren's blog with his post titled: 'Coddling is consider harmful'.

In reality it's a difficult problem and one that highlights the current state of software development. I liken that 'State-of-the-Art' to us having emerged from the Dark Ages into a Renaissance where a relatively small number of great minds feverishly trade ideas amongst themselves, each putting out a great product. But that is still a long way from an 'Industrial Age' where knowledge then becomes something easily systemitized, packaged, and delivered in forms useful for ordinary folks to accomplish heretofore remarkable tasks.

In other words, we're a long way from the day bright sixth graders or entry level devs are writing solid enterprise apps...