sometimes, it feels like managers hate engineers, and are constantly plotting their replacement. maybe its because it hurts their ego to know that the engineers they manage worked harder to get there and deserve a higher salary.
or else, it could be office politics. anyone who can claim to have removed an entire department from payroll is due a huge raise.
oh, well then that explains why Python is a joke.
its even worse that they hat to ruin a beautiful existing language to do it.
not really, imo. its more like a sequenced list of pointers to various instruction sets.
can you really call python programming though? The reason why python is so quick to write is because its so-called libraries are pre-compiled C programs. so you’re not writing new programs, you’re scripting existing ones.
you ever get the feeling that programming has gotten way too overbloated? that good old fashioned engineering has been buried under miles of industry standards, best practices, enterprise services, business methodologies, and managers trying to justify their paychecks?
feels like a giant bubble way too overdue for a needle.
I’m still curious what the reason is, even if its clown logic.
Why is writing code by hand out of the question?
Not exactly accurate, I think. Even machine language is bound by the CPU’s architecture. You can’t do anything in machine language that wasn’t specifically provided for by the CPU architects.
It would be more accurate to say it’s like creating a new universe using all the same laws of physics, thermodynamics, cosmology, ethics, etc as our existing universe.
Not when it was invented, no. Compared to today’s stack-phobic languages? Certainly.
I want to point out that, just like in real life, its the inclusion of that “++” which complicates things. Without them, it would be straightforward and elegant, having only 1 logical solution.
Makes you wonder why people keep insisting on having the “++” around. Why not ditch them and go back to basics.
“It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.”
-Edsger W. Dijkstra
Is this a NTFS meme that I’m too ext4 to understand?
Why C ‘hackers’? Why not just regular C users?
If you ask me, the only reason for objects to exist are for preventing stale references. Anything more than this is unnecessary.
I used to think I was just a fanboy. But as time went on and I gained more and more experiences, I’ve only become all the more sure that ANSI C is the only language I ever want to write anything in.
I/O Issues are problems that come with the territory for scripting languages like python. Its why I prefer to use bash for scripting instead, because in bash, all I/O are strings. And if there are ever any conflicts, well that’s what awk/sed/Perl are for.
that explains why the idea to replace engineers would enter peoples minds, but not why they would try so, so hard to get people to believe it.