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It depends. I've been coding for a living for 41 years and have a feeling I'll get the hang of it real soon now.

by atticora 3y ago

jesse__ 3y ago
Amazing answer
ilrwbwrkhv 3y ago
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- icepat 3y ago
  Right - because the entire point of learning to program is becoming Mr. Robot
- scrps 3y ago
  It is possible you are not cut out for sarcasm? (Giving you the benefit of the doubt you may have taken the comment literally, if so I'd maybe apologize for insulting someone with 41 years of experience in a field that is still young whilst having no knowledge of exactly who you are talking to)
- atticora 3y ago
  I aim higher.
bxparks 3y ago
Then there's C++. After ~30 years of it, I realized that I don't know how to initialize an object anymore. So I've given up.
- PaulDavisThe1st 3y ago
  I've been doing C++ since 93. What's changed that makes you feel this way?
  - Nevermark 3y ago
    Everything, man. Everything. From the perspective of pulling some C++ programmer in 1993 into 2024, and dropping them into a large C++ code base consistently written with the latest C++ idioms. (And yes, this is humorous exaggeration. But the name of C++ is apt. A C language dedicated to accumulating features.)
    - PaulDavisThe1st 3y ago
      It's a pre-increment operator. If it was called ++C you'd have a point :) I just don't understand how someone could have been working in C++ and not picked up the largest changes even just by osmosis. My code-based "upgraded" to C++11 about a year ago, but I can still read C++17 and am not intimidated by C++20 fragments. YMMV I suppose.
      - Nevermark 3y ago
        ++C = Every time you go to write new code, some new features have already been adopted that you need to get hip with. C++ = Every time you look at old code, it is already out of date based on new features that were adopted after the code was written.
reactordev 3y ago
If only they would stop changing the rug out from under ya, am I right? Just when you finish with one API, they go and release a new one.
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It depends. I've been coding for a living for 41 years and have a feeling I'll get the hang of it real soon now.

jesse__ 3y ago

Amazing answer

ilrwbwrkhv 3y ago

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icepat 3y ago
Right - because the entire point of learning to program is becoming Mr. Robot
scrps 3y ago
It is possible you are not cut out for sarcasm? (Giving you the benefit of the doubt you may have taken the comment literally, if so I'd maybe apologize for insulting someone with 41 years of experience in a field that is still young whilst having no knowledge of exactly who you are talking to)
atticora 3y ago
I aim higher.

bxparks 3y ago

Then there's C++. After ~30 years of it, I realized that I don't know how to initialize an object anymore. So I've given up.

PaulDavisThe1st 3y ago
I've been doing C++ since 93. What's changed that makes you feel this way?
- Nevermark 3y ago
  Everything, man. Everything. From the perspective of pulling some C++ programmer in 1993 into 2024, and dropping them into a large C++ code base consistently written with the latest C++ idioms. (And yes, this is humorous exaggeration. But the name of C++ is apt. A C language dedicated to accumulating features.)
  - PaulDavisThe1st 3y ago
    It's a pre-increment operator. If it was called ++C you'd have a point :) I just don't understand how someone could have been working in C++ and not picked up the largest changes even just by osmosis. My code-based "upgraded" to C++11 about a year ago, but I can still read C++17 and am not intimidated by C++20 fragments. YMMV I suppose.
    - Nevermark 3y ago
      ++C = Every time you go to write new code, some new features have already been adopted that you need to get hip with. C++ = Every time you look at old code, it is already out of date based on new features that were adopted after the code was written.

reactordev 3y ago

If only they would stop changing the rug out from under ya, am I right? Just when you finish with one API, they go and release a new one.

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