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What's amazing is people who program for a living, who people would normally think of as being "experts", have so little knowledge of all the different types of
by taylodl 3y ago
What's amazing is people who program for a living, who people would normally think of as being "experts", have so little knowledge of all the different types of programming that is done by, well, people who program for a living, and the tools they use to do that programming.
Not only then is it gatekeeping, it's also a sign of an inexperienced programmer.
I'll give one thing to Python programmers, they tend to work directly with their end users and build solutions that matter to them. Anyone that's done that kind of work knows it's difficult, regardless of programming language being used.
- jrm4 3y agoAnd arguably, is the more "important" work, or at least the stuff requiring the most attention? I know that's a tough thing to say -- but yeah, the irony is that a really really good "low-level programmer" is destined for obscurity, because things just work and once they're working people forget about it. Shouts to Linus Torvalds.
- toenail 3y agoYou're saying that specialization is bad and that specialists can't be experts.