To what extent is this because we act like spoiled kids? I really do mean "we" here; I probably have acted like that sometimes. I wonder if we, the post-microcomputer generations, are messed up to some extent because we started programming as a fun distraction from the work we were supposed to be doing, rather than learning programming as a serious job from the beginning like our predecessors who learned on mainframes or minicomputers in college.
To what extent is this because we act like spoiled kids? I really do mean "we" here; I probably have acted like that sometimes. I wonder if we, the post-microcomputer generations, are messed up to some extent because we started programming as a fun distraction from the work we were supposed to be doing, rather than learning programming as a serious job from the beginning like our predecessors who learned on mainframes or minicomputers in college.