Wired: "‘Real’ Programming Is an Elitist Myth" - Kotaku In Action 2

Wired: "‘Real’ Programming Is an Elitist Myth" (archive.is)

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– Grumman 17 points 4 years ago +17 / -0

Go ahead and tweet “HTML is real programming,” and watch programmers show up in your mentions to go, “As if.” Except when you write a web page in HTML, you are creating a data model that will be interpreted by the browser. This is what programming is.

No it isn't. HTML is just a static markup language. Programming is when you write ASP, PHP or JavaScript code and they output the data to be interpreted as HTML.

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– Neilcuckman666 3 points 4 years ago +4 / -1

us C++ programmers piss on anyone who thinks javascript is programming

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– lgbtqwtfbbq 3 points 4 years ago +3 / -0

The compiler labored for an hour an produced an executable that amounted to “print 2.71828...”

I remember reading a similar story where an optimizing compiler was able to evaluate the output of some popular CPU benchmarking software at compile-time. All I can say is I'd love to know who's making these optimizing compilers, because I've never used one that clever.

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