I also thought this argument was obvious, even though people clearly didn't think so, but I'm glad you did such a good job explaining the point.
> when did learning become bad?
This is when you hit on what I think people mean when they use the "just get stuff done" argument. What they mean is they can get stuff done now, without having to learn anything along the way or think too hard.
Sometimes that's defensible, deadlines and real life and all. Most of the time it's defensiveness because they know they are getting less stuff done and that stuff is lower quality because they didn't take the time to learn better tools and stuck with the training wheels.
> hip guys in class who write cool code in Ruby or Python
How out of touch do you have to be to think that people are using Ruby or Python because they are hip unknown languages? I have literally gotten this same statement thrown at me (to be fair, he had two young kids so he really was out of touch and had good reason to be).
> when did learning become bad?
This is when you hit on what I think people mean when they use the "just get stuff done" argument. What they mean is they can get stuff done now, without having to learn anything along the way or think too hard.
Sometimes that's defensible, deadlines and real life and all. Most of the time it's defensiveness because they know they are getting less stuff done and that stuff is lower quality because they didn't take the time to learn better tools and stuck with the training wheels.
> hip guys in class who write cool code in Ruby or Python
How out of touch do you have to be to think that people are using Ruby or Python because they are hip unknown languages? I have literally gotten this same statement thrown at me (to be fair, he had two young kids so he really was out of touch and had good reason to be).