Re:The Awk Programming Language (1988) [pdf]
by exelius on Thursday May 24, 2018 @08:30AM
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I think you’re confusing “programmer” with “10x programmer”. Plenty of people are capable of implementing business logic in code. Very few are capable of designing that logic — they’re the 10x programmers who know all about data structures, algorithms, etc.
You can’t run a business expecting every employee to be a rockstar. It just doesn’t scale. So you skill it down and put the high-skill people where they can have the most impact.
Re:The Awk Programming Language (1988) [pdf]
by blowski on Thursday May 24, 2018 @10:48AM
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It sounds like we have a different definition of programming. For me, programming is producing code that gets executed by another piece of hardware or software.
The complexity of the code is not part of the definition. Nor is your understanding of the hardware/software involved.
Re:The Awk Programming Language (1988) [pdf]
by mjburgess on Thursday May 24, 2018 @11:21AM
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Enjoying programming is enjoying programming. The way it is sold, sometimes, is not as programming.
Unless you've experienced this sales pitch you're not going to connect with the point i'm making.
Care to give an example pitch from the real world?
Re:The Awk Programming Language (1988) [pdf]
by singingfish on Friday May 25, 2018 @08:41AM
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Perl isn’t difficult in the same way that the English lnguage isn’t difficult. Easy to get started with, takes a long time to master. Fortunately for us die hard perl types it’s quite capable of cleanly solving all normal dynamic language problems, and some seriously abnormal ones. And because of the insanely good backcompat in perl we’ll see the pendulum swing back to perl 5 some time in the next decade.
The vast majority of people do not want to be programmers and would not enjoy programming. Delaying the moment the actually have to do something difficult with a programming language is not especially heathly.
How would you feel about a career in football sold to you on the basis of table pong? Keep playing the pong, and then one day, you're face is in the dirt and you drop out.
The self-esteem hack psychology of the 60s-90s equivocated encouraging people with lying to them, as-if the only way we can get programmers is by lying about what programming is about. This isnt encouraging anyone, it's lying to them.