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Well I'm not from a web programming background, I started with game programming in C. Maybe since web is so design heavy it doesn't matter if you don't understa

• thaumaturgy 12y ago
  I worked with C, C++, and assembly -- and others -- before picking up web programming. They're just different, but people still insist on getting their egos involved anyway. With OS and applications programming, you typically have to know a handful of concepts, but you have to know them really well. With web programming, you typically have to know a lot -- it can be an obnoxiously broad field of practice -- but you don't have to know it all perfectly well. CSS or JS or PHP or Python or Ruby or what-have-you generally immediately works or doesn't work, you generally don't encounter those annoying null ptr situations. I doubt there are a lot of C programmers that could do web development (front and back end) very well. I doubt there are a lot of web developers that could do OS development very well. But it's all just programming. All of software development would be a hell of a lot better environment if people would quit waving their egos around.