Am I missing some sorta punchline? or are they shamelessly ripping off the bloomberg headline to grab more eyeballs?
I guess it's because both magazines are in the finance space and Bloomberg made waves only a few months ago with their piece that I'm having trouble not seeing this as trying to ride on coat-tails.
Edit: mediumdeviation makes a fair point, I didn't really think about the fact that economist explains is a regular column, I still think they coulda come up with a more creative title (How Programming Works, How Programmers Work, What is a Programmer, What Code Does, Java: More Than Just Coffee, Code: The Hitchhiker's Guide, etc)
re: the newspaper thing: I get a weekly, bound, glossy set of papers that can only be described as a magazine, if they wanna be called a newspaper maybe they should look more like Barron's (please don't I hate that set up).
How many other ways are there to title an article explaining, essentially, what is computer code?
"The Economist Explains" is a regular column where the newspaper (not magazine, mind you, the Economist is very particular about that) explains a wide variety of issue, mostly current but not always, as in this case, and makes them accessible concisely to those not in the field.
That Bloomberg published an in-depth report on the same issue a few months ago, and this short column appearing now is merely a coincidence, and suggesting otherwise is completely ridiculous.
I guess it's because both magazines are in the finance space and Bloomberg made waves only a few months ago with their piece that I'm having trouble not seeing this as trying to ride on coat-tails.
Edit: mediumdeviation makes a fair point, I didn't really think about the fact that economist explains is a regular column, I still think they coulda come up with a more creative title (How Programming Works, How Programmers Work, What is a Programmer, What Code Does, Java: More Than Just Coffee, Code: The Hitchhiker's Guide, etc)
re: the newspaper thing: I get a weekly, bound, glossy set of papers that can only be described as a magazine, if they wanna be called a newspaper maybe they should look more like Barron's (please don't I hate that set up).