"Perhaps, because we always had autoloading as a crutch, our existing knowledge has atrophied – or never even developed – putting us at an even greater disadvantage."
I think the same can be said of any abstraction. The Ruby programming language as an abstraction over C. C as an abstraction over assembler. etc. Yet few people write code in assembler. I don't find this a very compelling argument.
I think the same can be said of any abstraction. The Ruby programming language as an abstraction over C. C as an abstraction over assembler. etc. Yet few people write code in assembler. I don't find this a very compelling argument.