‘Real’ programming is an elitist myth
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When people build a database to manage reading lists or feed their neighbors, that’s coding—and culture.
I only play one on TV
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Now that he can link tables, all those "real" programmers can suck it! (Let's ignore "real" programmers wrote all that code he is using.)
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"Elitist" is just a smear term used by those who think that everyone deserves a trophy. The article sadly confirmed this rush to judgment. When Wired first started to publish, I subscribed (hard copy). Sic transit gloria. Another one, for you UK folks, is The Economist. In the mid 90s, I told an American colleague that "The Economist is to Time as Time is to People." It's now nothing but a mouthpiece for establishment thinking, received wisdom, and similar claptrap.
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Programmers gets worries not because they think that user creating small DBs will render them unemployed. They gets worries, because they know that after this small user creation outgrows original limitations of "no-code" tools or original creator moves on, it will end up on the programmer laps with unreasonable expectations - "if John Dow w/o any background did that much for virtually no time, you surely can do just a bit extra without much effort also...". And since everyone and their uncle seems to be able to do it, they surely do try. At our company the surveys found out that there are over 4,000 MS Access databases, that original owner is not available to support and now IT is responsible for.
