Re:What Is Systems Programming, Really?
by zamnos on Saturday March 11, 2023 @06:20AM
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The distinction goes to use case, and helps the hammer and nail programmers not get into arguments with the screwdriver and screws programmers over which is better - a hammer or a screwdriver? Of course, we as an industry love to argue, but I do think there is some use in having a distinction. Systems programmers have other programmers as users, application programmers have people as users. B2B vs B2C.
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Re:What Is Systems Programming, Really?
by swinglock on Saturday March 11, 2023 @06:49AM
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Got it. Businesses heavily employing a B2C marketing strategy should employ Python, Java and JavaScript programmers, while the B2B equivalents should use C and C++. Very useful to be able to make these decisions on a higher level, so that programmers don't need to argue about which tools would be well suited for a particular product. Allowing sales to make these decisions for us will improve our time to market.