khooke

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   by khooke 6y ago

   I worked at 3 different companies in the mid 1990s that had teams actively working on COBOL systems and they were all using mainframe based version control systems. I think the issue at this point is whether those version control systems ar
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   by khooke 6y ago

   Given the current day struggle to merge code with whitespace differences, merging differently arranged visual programming elements where the end result is the same but the positioning of the elements is just different sounds like a tough pr
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   by khooke 6y ago

   I think the limitation that no-one has managed to solve is that visual programming paradigm approaches tend to focus on solving a specific type of problem (drag and drop GUI builders are a perfect example), and this means their usage is nar
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   by khooke 6y ago

   Re. thinking better: I think we forget programming languages are just tools. (Almost) anyone can learn to program but it doesn't mean they're good at solving problems or are able to bring innovative/new/better solutions
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   by khooke 6y ago

   Other commercial development tools popular in the same time period just before Java's release also used p-code, e.g. Powerbuilder.
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   by khooke 6y ago

   Side comment: most new developers tend to ignore/not read compile or runtime error messages and ask for help before even realizing the cause of the problem they're trying to fix is right there in front of them. Better error messag