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I don't even understand what point you are making. The essence of programming is tool making. Of course the best programmers make tools as do the worst. Are you
by norir 1y ago
I don't even understand what point you are making. The essence of programming is tool making. Of course the best programmers make tools as do the worst. Are you seriously comparing making a terminal hot rod configuration app to, say, creating Tex?
- iLemming 1y ago> Being a programmer is not about configuring your development environment. My point is that being a programmer is also about configuring one's development environment. Exactly because like you said: "the essence of programming is tool making". I just don't understand how it is different - configuring a tool, extending its functionality, adding more features to it from developing a [different] tool from scratch? Both is programming. Shit done by programmers. You don't call one bunch "pseudo-programmers" and the other "alpha-programmers" or some shit like that, right?