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Why Johnny Can't Code

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the back-in-my-day dept.

GoCanes writes "Salon has an article named 'Why Johnny Can't Code,' an interesting examination of the dearth of line programming languages available today. At first I wanted to read this and say aha, here's a simple line oriented language that's available through open source, but after reading the article I couldn't find any. And being an old fart, I remember the days spent with edlin and basic."

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  1. Bah. by O'Laochdha · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I was working with C when I was nine years old, and everyone knows I'm an idiot, a complete idiot, the dumbest little pissant who ever lived. Hell, 99% of kids are smarter than I am today. If I could do it, the dumbest kid in America could.