Not so long ago I came across an essay on philosophical issues, written by a famous physicist. It gave me some thoughts about computers, computer literacy courses, and even the expressiveness of programming languages.
But first you need to explain where the title came from. (Hopefully the nature of the headline makes it clear enough that this is a weekend article, a read that doesn't claim to be anything serious).
Back in 1996 (or 1997?), The magazine "ComputerTerra" published a column by the then editor-in-chief entitled "Where was he wrong ... anyan?" I decided that it was probably not worth writing about the real ... anyan, but it would be better to replace him with a fictional character named Dzhigarkhanyan. My Dzhigarkhanyan, unlike the present one, worked as a teacher in a technical school (the director of which distinguished himself by his inability to calculate the percentage on air). He also studied sexology. Finally, in the 90s, Dzhigarkhanyan wrote and published a book "Figuring on the keyboard!", Fragments of which were published in one computer magazine (hence the name of the column). The fact that Dzhigarkhanyan may have made a mistake by writing and publishing his book was spoken by many evil tongues. But what exactly it consisted of - it occurred to me personally quite recently.
Let's digress from his book for now and return to philosophy. Philosophy for many is a boltological pseudoscience, divorced from reality as much as possible and having a low practical value. It is not surprising that the parody quintessence of such an attitude for them was the joke: "A samurai without a sword is like a samurai with a sword, but only without a sword." Especially in a country where the word "humanist" is almost abusive, and the engineer for the last hundred years has been perceived as almost the only form of existence of intelligent matter.
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for some reason they are now considered "deep knowledge of the instrument" and in general - a matter of honor and valor. (I know many good offices with strong and talented programmers, where they ask such questions during interviews). While from my point of view, much more respect deserves the ability to recognize situations in which the semblance of the subject area weakens, and in every possible way to deal with them.