Listen, if all you know is Z-80 Assembly and not binary programming for the ENIAC, you really don't know programming. You must be one of the crap programmers that need all the hand-holding of these modern toy languages.
This is probably the most irritating and self-defeating tentacle of the culture of programming. "Everyone on the road is such a terrible driver, but me, I know what I'm doing!" I've only been graduated for a year, and before I got hired at a fortune 500, I went through all the books (Cracking the Coding Interview, etc), I looked up advice for grads, I polished my projects, and I lived in fear that "everyone is terrible! everyone doesn't know what they're doing!" The drumbeat of your lazy self-aggrandizing isn't helping anyone be better at what they do, or get all those "rockstar programmers" to work for you. But then, whining about the next generation really isn't about fixing or improving anything at all, is it?
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Listen, if all you know is Z-80 Assembly and not binary programming for the ENIAC, you really don't know programming. You must be one of the crap programmers that need all the hand-holding of these modern toy languages.
This is probably the most irritating and self-defeating tentacle of the culture of programming. "Everyone on the road is such a terrible driver, but me, I know what I'm doing!" I've only been graduated for a year, and before I got hired at a fortune 500, I went through all the books (Cracking the Coding Interview, etc), I looked up advice for grads, I polished my projects, and I lived in fear that "everyone is terrible! everyone doesn't know what they're doing!" The drumbeat of your lazy self-aggrandizing isn't helping anyone be better at what they do, or get all those "rockstar programmers" to work for you. But then, whining about the next generation really isn't about fixing or improving anything at all, is it?