Autocoding evolves from........

[Andy Todd]

huaiyu at gauss.almadan.ibm.com (Huaiyu Zhu) wrote in 
news:slrna65qur.hgk.huaiyu at gauss.almadan.ibm.com:

> On Wed, 06 Feb 2002 09:48:10 -0800, Jeff Shannon <jeff at ccvcorp.com> 
wrote:
>>
>>The problem you're running into, is that you've failed to convince anyone 
that
>>*you* understand the real problems involved, enough to be able to solve 
them.  You
>>don't need to convince us of the benefits of autocoding; you need to 
convince us
>>of *your* competence.  So far, you're failing miserably. 
> 
> He has several other major problems:
> 
> 1. He seems to be unable to differentiate and respond well to negative
>    comments.  He treats them all equally, and replies to the more 
negative
>    ones with more enthusiasm.  Can he tell the difference between the
>    following comments?  "I don't understand."  "I's already done."  "It
>    can't be done."  "Yeah, that'll be good, but I don't think you've got 
the
>    right approach to do it."  Sometimes he can't even see a humor.
> 
> 2. He seems to claim that he has already abstracted all of computing into
>    his nine commands, yet he also claims that this vision of his is
>    impossible to be put into words, examples or mathematics.  That's kind 
of
>    contradictary since the art of programming, or much of science itself, 
is
>    to figure out exactly how things behave, and how to make things work 
as
>    desired.  It is the art of collecting and summarizing details, to
>    formulize and abstract them, to articulate and communicate them.
> 
> 3. He misunderstood the mechanism of Open Source projects.  These 
projects
>    exist because it is more efficient to do things that way.  A leader 
being
>    a leader must have the ability to make things more efficient for 
others.
>    He claims he knows the road ahead, but don't have the time to travel
>    there.  So let's ask some hyperthetical questions.  Suppose there are
>    twenty programmers willing to join his project.  Now he could achieve 
in
>    a year or two what he would have done by himself in twenty years.  
What
>    are the tasks these programmers would be handling?  What are the most
>    urgent theoretical problems to be solved?  What would be the codes he
>    wants them to write in the first month?  Will he handle the final 
checkin
>    and approval of code, and if so, what functionality and other criteria
>    he'll use to judge them?  He seems to think that one man with a vision
>    plus a million monkeys jumping on keyboards would solve real problems.
> 
> So with these problems in the way, it is not of much use communicating on
> this topic.  The first and second problems also imply that there's not 
much
> chance that any of these problems can be solved soon.
> 
> (Rue, if you are listening here, there's no need to respond.  We are not
> sympathetic people here.  Programmers behave like Nazies here.)
> 
> 
> Huaiyu

And thus Godwin's law is proven once more and this discussion can draw to a 
close.

I thank you,
Andy
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