<div dir="ltr">And my comment about seeing code produced by programmers while doing sales support dates from 1990. This isn't something new, from my perspective. I was working in a small programming shop where there were a handful of excellent programmers, and then sent out to help customers get started using their libraries. That's when I experienced seeing things that still make me cringe.<div><br></div><div>Rik</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Oct 1, 2024 at 12:07 PM <<a href="mailto:arnold@skeeve.com">arnold@skeeve.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Bakul Shah via TUHS <<a href="mailto:tuhs@tuhs.org" target="_blank">tuhs@tuhs.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> > Thus Go and Rust are good things, taking the sharp tools out of the<br>
> > hands of the people who aren't qualified to use them. Same thing Python.<br>
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> Sounds like boomer mentality... Kids these days... :-) Also sounds like<br>
> the kind of arguments assembly language programmers presented when *we*<br>
> were the "kids" trying out "structured programming"!<br>
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It's not that they're intrinsically unqualified. They were never<br>
taught, so they don't know what they're doing. I'm unqualified to<br>
fly a plane because I never learned or practiced, not because I'm not<br>
intelligent enough. Same thing for many of today's programmers<br>
and C / C++.<br>
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