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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. Re:passworded article by remembertomorrow · · Score: 4, Funny

    This article should be called "Why Johnny Can't Read Online Articles". :|

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  2. Get off my lawn! by MirrororriM · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why, when I was a young programmer we had to write the code in the snow with our pee, and a compiler was just a word for the pilot of the hovering dirigible that read the instructions and passed them to the ALU, which was another fellow with an abacus. They would wrap the results around a rock, and drop it on my house when the program would exit. We had to walk uphill...

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  3. That's not like any BASIC program *I* ever wrote! by Valdrax · · Score: 4, Funny

    You're missing the ^G to make it beep after every line.
    Amateur.

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  4. OOOH, *I'll* tell yuo why Johnny can't code by revlayle · · Score: 4, Funny

    Because Johnny is an idiot:
    * Johnny is the one at your company that has been working there for 10 years
    * No one fires him becuase he "knows a lot of things about the process"
    * Johnny talks about his technological exploits
    * Eveyone else has to debug and fix Johnny's bugs
    * He never asks the other developers any question on how to do something, for fear he will look inferior (too late Johhny!)
    * AND WHEN YOU NEED A FREAKING IP ADDRESS FROM HIS PC???
    You: "Johnny, can you get me your IP Address?"
    Johnny fumbles around his desktop, going through all the Control Panel Options
    You: "'ipconfig' Johnny"
    Johnny: "EYE PEE CONFIG?"
    You: "Yes, you know, the command prompt?"
    Johnny: "What?"
    You: "Never mind... what the status on your code module?"
    Johnny: "Module??"
    You: *head explodes*