Hello world: Shining a light onto the culture of computer programmers

Re:Hello world: Shining a light onto the culture of computer... by NotPaidToPost on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @03:25AM (#19622573)

What you describe does not look like the typical software developer job at all.

Certainly not anyone can write software. In fact, many who see themselves as "coders" are not very good at it themselves.

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I've found it's a bit similar to law in terms of skills and mindset. Some people struggle to follow the text of an actual law. Then, drafting an actual law is an even more specialised skill. In both software and law, if you draft badly you will face problems...

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Re:Hello world: Shining a light onto the culture of computer... by C1sc0cat on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @05:47AM (#19623157)

I sometimes think drafting laws badly is a feature not a bug - after all think of all that lucrative legal work for other lawyers.

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Re:Hello world: Shining a light onto the culture of computer... by bildung on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @08:13AM (#19623830)

Couldn't the same (IMO flawed) reasoning applied to the topic at hand? "Computers are made complicated on purpose - after all think of all the lucrative programming jobs"

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Re:Hello world: Shining a light onto the culture of computer... by C1sc0cat on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @10:04AM (#19624719)

Not in the case of laws :-(

I know of one infamous Pensions case that dragged on for well over a decade in the UK over some arcane legal arguments.

Of course the longer the case went on the more pensioners died

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