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The Technologies Changing What It Means To Be a Programmer
snydeq writes Modern programming bears little resemblance to the days of assembly code and toggles. Worse, or perhaps better, it markedly differs from what it meant to be a programmer just five years ago. While the technologies and tools underlying this transformation can make development work more powerful and efficient, they also make developers increasingly responsible for facets of computing beyond their traditional domain, thereby concentrating a wider range of roles and responsibilities into leaner, more overworked staff.
There is a very tiny overlap between software developers and journalists. And yet the number of software development journalists greatly exceeds the size of that overlap. The only explanation is that there are people who don't know what they're talking about who write these articles.
Yes,much like with Regex, you now have 2 problems.
Thank you for your contribution, but if you'd been paying attention, you would have realized that we are looking for ways it could have been done better here.
If you're not writing x86 assembly by hand, you have no right to complain. Then an even older guy goes, "if you're not punching cards, you have no right to complain". Then an even older guy goes, "If you're not flipping switches and soldering wires you have no right to complain". Finally, the oldest man in the room stands up and says: "Before there were machines called computers, there were people who did calculations by hand. They were called computers. Most of them were women. If you didn't marry her, you have no right to complain".
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
To someone who writes Javascript code every day, like myself, nothing at all is "broken" with the language (though obviously, like any language, it could use some improvements).
Ah, good old Stockholm Syndrome. Don't worry, I feel the same way about C++ ;^)
I don't care if it's 90,000 hectares. That lake was not my doing.
C++ is the programming language equivalent of a powerful but touchy sports car that's almost guaranteed to crash and burn in the hands of novice drivers, but can perform beautifully in the hands of an expert. C is that same car with the mirrors, safety belts, and airbags removed.
Irony: Agile development has too much intertia to be abandoned now.