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Until now! They are now competing with cheap labor/intelligence from India and China. And Later worse with machine intelligence!

Frankly the inly "skill" that you could rely on 20-40 later is programming and creativity.

Programming language to be used is determined by the underlying problem to be solved and not the device interface (touch, keyboard or a Mars rover!). If some app is more suited to be written in an FP language that choice is independent of device that app is being run on as long as the machine code is Turing complete!

My issue with article is that it makes arument that programming style is decided by the interface or the device which in case of a device like IPAD is totaly false!

Yes Thinking in Scheme is different than in C++ but Some programs are more suited to be written in a functional language. And that has no bearing on whether the device is an ipad or a PC.

Interfaces dont define the programming style to be used! Underlying Problem does! And thanks to Apple you cant use a FP language on ipad!

What if i wrote a haskell to C++ converter and Microsoft (Wait Apple already did that) banned it because it only wants you to use OO programmin!! Also we know that Haskell/Lisp/Scheme are more suited toward certain applications!

Still do you agree that Haskell or Scheme is "bad" for IPAd just because it has a touch interface???

Yeah i know they are different but when one has created a bridge between two languages, disallowing it for some non nonsensical reasons of "computational creativity" seems utterly stupid to me!

IT shows perfectly why technology does not brings intelligence. You can give them the best hardware and still they wont become next Google or Facebook founders or use it in any other productive endevour! Seriously most of the human race does not deserves the power of computing!

They wont lolcats on "magical devices!" long live America! What a waste!

I am sorry to comment harshly but this is most WTF article which i have ever read!

To quote the Author """ Specifically, a large number of developers seem to think that they have the right to make software for the iPhone (or for anything else) in Flash, or in another high-level environment of their choosing. Literally, the right, not just the convenience or the opportunity. And many of them are quite churlish about the matter """

I mean come on! Some one write a translator which converts code from one language to another! And stupid tactics are being used by Apple to stop it!

Does this person does not know about the Turing Completeness of programming languages??? It does not matter which programming language you use as long as it is Turing complete!

The article goes on to make dubious arguments about computational creativity on different platforms which make totally no sense!