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Every HN discussion: I do real programming. Everyone else works on toy problems.
by bachmeier 5y ago
Every HN discussion: I do real programming. Everyone else works on toy problems.
- Grimm1 5y agoIt's all real programming and it has all the real consequences, but there is a distinction between something that needs to live for a day, a few months, maybe years and then maybe have multiple people work on it, have it communicate with other systems or not and the level of investment and structure you need to put into a system to make sure that's possible. Programming has a very low barrier to entry and that is incredibly powerful but there is a big gap between someone writing one off scripts to solve immediate problems and people writing highly connected systems that withstand scrutiny. I've always personally been for accreditation for software engineers much like pretty much every other engineering discipline.
- blacktriangle 5y agoHe wasn't calling that one-off use case a toy, just that it's a different world than most of the people here on HN function in.
- unishark 5y agothey used to split stuff like R off into the "scripting" category. But now most "real programmers" are apparently doing python or javascript so that little hierarchy quietly disappeared.