yes to all of that. In other words, we need both. We need the low-level stuff to do things nobody has ever done before, and the high-level stuff for the things we do every day.
The parent commenter would say that we shouldn’t use an IDE to navigate through the massive code base to make sure records submitted from the railroad yards were in compliance. What alternative would you suggest?
Intellisense for Visual Studio has been out since the mid 90a
I remember when it came out. It changed my life. Libraries without docs were suddenly discoverable. I didn’t have to memorize things, I just had to remember the gist of things. It let me focus on the important stuff. Still, today, before picking up a library, I will read over the whole thing so I know what is possible; but I don’t need to memorize it.
