Posted on 04/06/2023 6:35:29 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
“BASIC!!”, he shouted, banging his walker loudly on the floor for emphasis.
I suspect that within a few years, there will be no human-written programming language. All computer language will be written by AI itself.
Have you ever heard the expression “he did a BAL to the brain and got an 806” (program not found)
Professional IT Operations guy here, I got the same grief as a Linux shell "coder." Building and operating online subscription services was my wheelhouse; SIP telephone services to be specific.
My path:
Fortran in college (Mainframe)
Basic (TRS80)
Z80 Assembly (early microprocessor industrial control, custom hardware)
Turbo Pascal (IBM PC)
C/C++
Modula 2
VB
C# (On it since it was introduced, love it!)
Is Ada still in use in DoD?
PHP and JavaScript run the majority of the web. WordPress uses both extensively and more websites run WordPress than any other CMS.
Yep, there’s no such thing as a shell ‘coding’ either.
There’s entire frameworks to develop games. The coding is the easy part. The graphics arts is the hard part, or time consuming part.
I still have that book!
“PHP and JavaScript run the majority of the web. WordPress uses both extensively and more websites run WordPress than any other CMS.”
Yep. I stay away from Wordpress. It’s popularity has made it the “training grounds” for hacking. This makes it a popular target that is vulnerable. I put up two Wordpress sites and both were penetrated within a week so I stopped using it.
I’ve built many WordPress websites over the past 15+ years and have never been hacked. I use WordFence security plugin. I also make sure to use plugins and themes that are well coded. Always run the latest version of php. Try to keep javascript to a minimum.
It is true that the big guys’ products are the big targets. That’s why Windows and programs for it have always had security issues.
So, every programmer will be fired. Who said, “Learn to code?”
I’ve spent half of my career as a Java dev and the other half with C#. C#, Visual Studio, and VS Code have run away from the pack. Feature rich and constantly evolving. While Java was originally billed as “Write once, run anywhere” but in reality it was “Write once, debug everywhere”, C# has actually achieved the “Write once, run anywhere” idea. We develop on Windows and Macs, and deploy to Linux containers, or test locally using Windows containers and everything just works.
“Always run the latest version of php. Try to keep javascript to a minimum.”
Yep... There is the key right there... :)
Good luck keeping JavaScript to a minimum with all the node.js based apps, like Angular and React.
I hate JavaScript!
“Good luck keeping JavaScript to a minimum with all the node.js based apps, like Angular and React.
I hate JavaScript!”
True... I agree. Besides the fact JS is a delivery tool for hidden scripts. But somethings you cannot get away from. Like Icons and such.
Don’t forget hp’s rpn(hp25, etc)!
To this day I use hp71B’s.
To mention C# and ignore the fact that it is heavily used in Unity for game dev tells me whoever wrote this really isn’t the coder he thinks he is.
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