[HN Gopher] My Stance on Toxicity About Programming Languages
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       My Stance on Toxicity About Programming Languages
        
       Author : hasheddan
       Score  : 7 points
       Date   : 2022-05-23 19:33 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | mc4ndr3 wrote:
       | I believe we are all at the forefront of programming. Our field
       | as a science is less than a hundred years old. To speak of the
       | Medieval Ages would be too kind; Rather, we are still groping
       | around as cavemen, still discovering which berries are sweet and
       | which are poisonous. Frankly, all programmers are flipping morons
       | at this point. In terms of what we know now as a consensus, and
       | what is yet to be learnt, we know less than 1% of what it means
       | to program effectively. Whether you're a high frequency trading
       | performance tuner with multiple collegiate degrees, or perhaps a
       | script kiddy fresh from your first few lines of LEGO coding, the
       | difference between these points of competence, when inevitably
       | measured against the sea of knowledge to come as our field
       | matures in another century, pales to insignificance. Everybody's
       | still skinning cats, in a billion Rubegoldbergesque different
       | ways.
        
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