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Early in my career, I worked in support for a company which made developer tooling. Male programmers would call in and do a bit of intro so you knew they were
by RajT88 2y ago
Early in my career, I worked in support for a company which made developer tooling.
Male programmers would call in and do a bit of intro so you knew they were not dumb, just busy.
VB6 programmers would say things like "I am a very senior VB developer". They were the only "very senior" programmers who did not seem to understand things about OS stuff. Like exported functions and their different calling conventions, why you need to "register" COM .dlls, environment blocks, handles, etc.
- j16sdiz 2y ago> They were the only "very senior" programmers... Don't forget nodejs.
- noduerme 2y agoReally? I feel like those of us maintaining PHP stacks are much more "senior" by now...
- treve 2y agoI feel this narrative about less experienced developers probably made sense to you back then, but it might be time to update it!
- RajT88 2y agoThis narrative was about how VB did not produce senior developers that understood how computers worked. Never observed such a thing with any other language. (Of course I am too young to have met people building business apps off COBOL or BASIC).
- treve 2y agoThere's still lots of gatekeeping everywhere if you know where to look!
- flomo 2y agoPoint taken that VB was a programming ghetto. But the actual seniors were fighting the language to call Win32, writing MTS servers, and etc, they 'got' all that stuff. I did some VBS ASP back in the day (not VB), and the language was more just annoying, at least partially due to the BASIC legacy stuff. Like it didn't even have a hashmap, you had to import something from Internet Explorer.
- pacifika 2y agoScripting.Dictionary!