Re: my evolution as a programmer

http://lists.canonical.org/pipermail/kragen-tol/2007-March/000849.html
> I still meet a lot of people who think that knowing how to program is
> about knowing programming languages or the APIs of libraries or
> "frameworks", and who are much more impressed with the quality of the
> gradients an a program's UI than with its underlying functionality.
> ...  Once, I thought that I had believed these things myself
> because I was 6-12 years old, but apparently many adults have these
> cognitive limitations too.

Scott McCloud mentioned the same thing in a different domain in  
"Understanding Comics":
http://gangles.ca/images/SixLayers2.jpg

and I've also seen it in sport, so it's likely to be common to any  
discipline: it's much easier for neophytes to see surface qualities,  
while appreciation of underlying qualities comes slowly with experience.

-Dave

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