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[John Reimer]

In article <43FFBB0A.9080007 at nospam.org>, Georg Wrede says...

>Heh, I read the article, and found myself agreeing with every point in it.
>
>Kernel work is such a serious thing that the faint should be gotten rid 
>of as fast as possible. And the bit about not having a debugger forces 
>you to think what the _program_ does vs. what a single line of code 
>does, was just succinctly said.
>
>At the end I found it signed Linus. I was proud to have agreed on the 
>points, and I was ashamed to not having noticed the author's name right 
>at the top.
>
>---
>
>Now, D is IMHO an excellent First Language. And some people really seem 
>to find debuggers useful. Personally I never use them, because I find 
>myself distracted and concentrating on the debugger instead of thinking 
>of the problem.
>
>With D, let folks have debuggers if they want. But to become a real 
>programmer, one should learn to bike without the baby wheels.
>
>Then again, not everybody should even try to become a Real Programmer. 
>Even the VB crowd can find jobs suitable for them. In the future, also in D.


You mention a lot of pride here.  Are you from Finland, by any chance, Georg? ;)

I see you share more than one thing in common with Linus to be proud of. :)

Otherwise, I'm sure your opinion is worth its weight... besides the ticklish jab
at what consitutes a "Real Programmer."

-JJR