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Or literally a part of the self, which is what the OP was getting at I think. And there is plenty of that in the software world. "I'm a Rubyist", "I'm a Pythoni
by jacquesm 9mo ago
Or literally a part of the self, which is what the OP was getting at I think. And there is plenty of that in the software world. "I'm a Rubyist", "I'm a Pythonista", "A rustacean" and so on. There is plenty of identity ridiculousness. I've been a C programmer but I've also been a basic programmer an assembly language programmer, a PHP programmer, a FORTH programmer and a whole list of others. To me that collapses to "I'm a programmer" (even if the sage advice on HN by the gurus is to never call yourself a programmer I'm more than happy to do so). It defines what I do, not what or who I am, and it only defines a very small part of what I do. That's one reason why I can't stand the us-vs-them mentality that some programming languages seem to install in their practitioners.
- zabzonk 9mo ago> "I'm a Rubyist", "I'm a Pythonista", "A rustacean" it suddenly struck me that there has never, AFAIK, a single-word noun for a C++ programmer. not sure what, if anything, this implies.
- christophilus 9mo ago“I’m a null pointer exception debugger.”
- aleph_minus_one 9mo ago> “I’m a null pointer exception debugger.” NullPointerException is the Java world. In C++, dereferencing a null pointer is rather undefined behaviour.
- namrog84 9mo agoSo it's perfectly fitting the noun for c++ dev is undefined behavior :D
- saghm 9mo agoI feel like it implies "it's harder to make a word out of 'C++' than it is for things that already naturally evolved as words people say like 'Ruby', 'Python', or 'Rust'".
- netule 9mo agoI think it’s because C++ programmers tend to define themselves by the domain they work in. Game developer, embedded systems engineer, firmware developer, etc.
- steve1977 9mo agoI'm a Swiftie! Oh wait... oh no...
- hcs 9mo agoA Seymour
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