"The reason most people want to program for the web is that they're not smart enough to do anything else"
The reason most people want to program for the web is that web is such an interesting and huge thing that is happening now and many people want to be a part of it and many others dream to make loads of money of it.
Web programming is not inherently bad compared to desktop programming. Of course there are many bad programmers who develop websites juts by reading a few ASP or PHP tutorials. But that cannot be generalized to say that all web programmers are bad. There were lot of bad programmers in the desktop world too. (Remember VB?)
"The reason most people want to program for the web is that they're not smart enough to do anything else"
Most of the people are not smart (at least when we look at them from our narrow perspectives). They are everywhere - in the desktop as well as in the web.
At the same time you will see that the ratio of good programmers to bad ones is orders of magnitude higher in some specialized fields like compiler design or kernel design. Just remember that this is not a sign that all good programmers are in the desktop. It just means that smart people tend to cluster around in places where other smart people are. There are places in the web where the ratio of smart people to dump ones is higher. Think about the engineers in Google/Youtube. Cloud computing and distributed computing are all hard problems too.
The reason most people want to program for the web is that web is such an interesting and huge thing that is happening now and many people want to be a part of it and many others dream to make loads of money of it.
Web programming is not inherently bad compared to desktop programming. Of course there are many bad programmers who develop websites juts by reading a few ASP or PHP tutorials. But that cannot be generalized to say that all web programmers are bad. There were lot of bad programmers in the desktop world too. (Remember VB?)
"The reason most people want to program for the web is that they're not smart enough to do anything else"
Most of the people are not smart (at least when we look at them from our narrow perspectives). They are everywhere - in the desktop as well as in the web.
At the same time you will see that the ratio of good programmers to bad ones is orders of magnitude higher in some specialized fields like compiler design or kernel design. Just remember that this is not a sign that all good programmers are in the desktop. It just means that smart people tend to cluster around in places where other smart people are. There are places in the web where the ratio of smart people to dump ones is higher. Think about the engineers in Google/Youtube. Cloud computing and distributed computing are all hard problems too.