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It's a sign we're having trouble in handling the complexity of our computer systems. Programming is mostly human-mind-bound now (and has been for many years); we need better tools and better abstractions.

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I think we need to remove that complexity and find a simpler approach to things, not just "better" (more complex) tools to layer even more complexity on top of complex.

I also would recommend that approach! The problem is, that you need more professional and better programmers that are aware of the problem and do reduce the complexity. Many self indulgent programmers, that think they are smart, won't.

But the trend is more to hire more and more novice programmers (because they are cheaper) ... so we get more into trouble in the future!

Agree completely. I think that contemporary CS education is really responsible for this "more complexity is better" mentality, by encouraging overly general and abstracted solutions, and that abstraction should really be applied only when it's necessary and not as a "just because we can" thing.

Aspiring programmers could learn a lot from the demoscene, where astonishingly impressive things are done with very little code and complexity.

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