Is vars() the most useless Python built-in ever?

[Rick Johnson]

On Tuesday, December 1, 2015 at 1:34:54 AM UTC-6, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> Rick Johnson :
> 
> > python was originally created to be an easy language for noobs to
> > learn
> 
> Really? That's would be a silly objective for a programming language.
> 
> > many a noob has been stumped
> 
> So?
> 
> You have to first placate the experts and the "noobs" will follow.

Okay i get it. So in your opinion, a technology is *ONLY* worthy if it requires a large amount of special training to wield it? 

Well, in that case you'd better start organizing a revived Luddite movement, because i can assure you that as we progress into the future, more and more of the processes that required "human specialist" will be replaced with computational devices that are purposefully designed to expose the most intuitive interface possible. 

PSST: THIS IS THE FUTURE! AND IT'S ALREADY STEAMROLLING AHEAD WITHOUT YOU!

Just about anything a human specialist can do, a machine can already, or will in a short time, do better, faster, and more consistently. This is a fact! We humans are terrible at solving problems that require extreme precision, repetition, data mining, memory recall, and many other processes that computational machines do with great ease. 

Any problem solving process can be broken down into it's atomic components, and reassembled as a logical algorithm. Even doctors will soon be replaced with machines, which will raise the quality of health care to a level never seen. There is almost no skill that is beyond the clutches of the algorithm.

In fact, the only skill that we humans posses which cannot yet be emulated, is the power of our imagination. Therefor, our goal should not be to create more "specialist", who toil away doing menial tasks like slaves, no, but to foster the creative potential of the human mind. 

By first *understanding* algorithmic processes, and then *abstracting* those processes in logic form, and finally *relegating* those abstractions to computational machines (that expose intuitive interfaces), we will enter an age of creative enlightenment such as this world has never seen. Just as the information age brought all the worlds knowledge to our fingertips, the relegation of menial tasks will free our bodies so that our minds can utilize that vast trove of knowledge to drive our technological evolution into overdrive. 

And as far as i'm concerned, we can't get there fast enough! 

So if you want to cling to a world where your "special skills" are nothing more than "job security", well then, go ahead. As for myself, and the vast majority of humanity, we will forge on with or without you!

 SO GOODBYE, AND GOOD RIDDANCE!!!