Been using UNIX since the late 80s; Linux since the mid-90s; virtualization since the early 2000s and spent the past few years working in the cloud space.
Location
Alexandria, VA, USA
Education
B.S. Psychology from Pennsylvania State University
Frankly, I abhor the idea of gist-y programming. That's too in the ballpark of "figure out what I mean".
Humans that speak the same native language and come from similar socio-economic backgrounds have a hard enough time understanding each other. The more divergent we are on communication starting-points we are, the worse it gets (e.g., how many times do you have to resort to transliteration to try to convey linguistic constructs that don't have true analogues across two languages?). The prospect of getting something so alien as a machine to "understand" a human's vaguely-conveyed intent specified in an arbitrary language? Don't get me wrong, I'm not arguing for going back to the bashing out pure-binary or even assembler …but, precision counts.
Personally, what constitutes "boring" is less hewing to conventions like 80-columns of ASCII than the seeming loss of humorous code-comments, error responses and other easter eggs. I'm also old enough to vaguely remember the days when Sendmail would crap-out with a "giving up the ghost" message and it has to have been nearly a decade since I've had to deal with "martian source" networking problems.
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Frankly, I abhor the idea of gist-y programming. That's too in the ballpark of "figure out what I mean".
Humans that speak the same native language and come from similar socio-economic backgrounds have a hard enough time understanding each other. The more divergent we are on communication starting-points we are, the worse it gets (e.g., how many times do you have to resort to transliteration to try to convey linguistic constructs that don't have true analogues across two languages?). The prospect of getting something so alien as a machine to "understand" a human's vaguely-conveyed intent specified in an arbitrary language? Don't get me wrong, I'm not arguing for going back to the bashing out pure-binary or even assembler …but, precision counts.
Personally, what constitutes "boring" is less hewing to conventions like 80-columns of ASCII than the seeming loss of humorous code-comments, error responses and other easter eggs. I'm also old enough to vaguely remember the days when Sendmail would crap-out with a "giving up the ghost" message and it has to have been nearly a decade since I've had to deal with "martian source" networking problems.