2 Oct
2024
2 Oct
'24
2:34 a.m.
And my comment about seeing code produced by programmers while doing sales
support dates from 1990. This isn't something new, from my perspective. I
was working in a small programming shop where there were a handful of
excellent programmers, and then sent out to help customers get started
using their libraries. That's when I experienced seeing things that still
make me cringe.
Rik
On Tue, Oct 1, 2024 at 12:07 PM <arnold(a)skeeve.com> wrote:
Bakul Shah via TUHS <tuhs(a)tuhs.org> wrote:
> Thus Go and Rust are good things, taking the sharp tools out of the
> hands of the people who aren't qualified to use them. Same thing
Python.
Sounds like boomer mentality... Kids these days... :-) Also sounds like
the kind of arguments assembly language programmers presented when *we*
were the "kids" trying out "structured programming"!
It's not that they're intrinsically unqualified. They were never
taught, so they don't know what they're doing. I'm unqualified to
fly a plane because I never learned or practiced, not because I'm not
intelligent enough. Same thing for many of today's programmers
and C / C++.