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This “real programmer” stuff is just gatekeeping and needs to go away forever

• speed_spread 3y ago
  Well, someone's hurt that their favorite IDE was derided once again 28 years later... :) Seriously, VB was quick and fun to code in but ultimately just contained way too many crazy footguns to build large maintainable apps. It's one of those things I swore never to put on my CV for fear someone noticed and asked me for just one "one quick fix" to their mudball.
  • mattl 3y ago
    It’s just unnecessary to have “real” programmers and everyone else. When you work with computers for long enough you realize there’s a massive grey area between those terms and most people are there.
• projektfu 3y ago
  I applied for a vb6 job circa 2000 and was sent a timed exam that required detailed knowledge of its library. I was like, oh, you actually wanted me to really know it. At this point VB had Intellisense for 2 versions and I couldn't imagine actually memorizing its crazy library. Anyhow, a real programmer definitely got that job.
• NBJack 3y ago
  Ah, don't mistake many of us collectively romping through the piles of outdated software and hardware with rose-colored goggles as something like that. Nostalgia trips aside, I certainly wouldn't be eager to trade my three-decades-refined tooling and easy access to answers so readily. That old shit broke all the time. It may have been fun then, but I wouldn't want to return to days of squeezing kilobytes of RAM via autoexec.bat and config.sys tweaking, or agonizing over the perfect combination to keep my IRQs straight across all of my ISA slots.