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Well I do not see a Maxist

cmaukonen — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:03:23 +0000

Well I do not see a Maxist type revolution any time soon Genghis. Such things generally only ocure after generations of social and econmoic oppression. A blog on another site suggested class warfare and that generally does not happen until generaions of social and economic oppression.

In other words not unitl after we are long dead and buried.

Power to the people.

Welcome, Mr. maukonen. You'll

acanuck — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:48:14 +0000

In reply to This may seem like an odd blog for the current economic situation.....

Welcome, Mr. maukonen. You'll want to edit your headline to read "AN odd blog."

Thanks for the post,

Michael Wolraich — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:44:00 +0000

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Thanks for the post, cmaukonen. Dumbing down programming has long been the dream of the software industry. Remember the ill-fated case tools of the 90s? To an extent, I suppose that they have finally succeeded, but I think that the result has just been an expansion of the industry. There are plenty of McCoders out there, but there are still plenty of difficult tasks that resist automation. Some Google guys are even trying to reinvent C with the new Go language.

As to the bigger picture, I agree with article's point, but this is hardly a new phenomon. Crafts have been gradually transforming into mechanized labor for two centuries. Such changes inspired Marx's theory of the alienation of labor, for example. The change comes with costs and benefits, but short of a Marxist revolution, I think it's largely unavoidable.