On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 5:23 AM Tyler Adams wrote: > Looking at the 1978 list, the last one really stands out: > > "Use tools in preference to unskilled help to lighten a programming task" > -- The concept of unskilled help for a programming task...doesn't really > exist in 2020. The only special case is doing unskilled labor yourself. > What unskilled tasks did people used to do back in the day? > > Tyler > I've often wondered if this is the source of the infamous putdown: When you operate in such or such manner,* "you could/should be replaced with a shell script."* ᐧ