- show how to write a spreadsheet application
- here you go, couple of hundred pages it is though
- ahh, silly person, why not type 'excel'
So what happened next? Everybody rolled eyes, or people said 'yeah, typing excel is pure genious'?
This happens repeatedly (not just this example, many others), and since the vast majority of people are never going to go back to the original sources we have a giant game of telephone. Generation after generation are given a variation on the summary theme, further and further removed from the original context. The speaker will elaborate on the criticism, but since they didn't read it themselves they're actually just bullshitting (semi-honest effort as they're pulling in the information they were given, but it's still bullshitting because they didn't bother to read).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming#Critiqu...
We should look into this. Want me to add a Jira Epic?