Importance of Automation

Automation is one of the things we should learn from western world. Everything is automated. There is a machine for everything. This is something which has to be learnt. This improves productivity. You might argue that this might take off some jobs, if we get machines for everything. I would say there will be jobs created in the factory were machines are created. This concept applies to software development also. If you want to automate some task, write a batch program or script to automate, so that you don't need to waste time by repeating some manual stuff.