[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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