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Other Stuff => Other Topics => Topic started by: rake on January 27, 2026, 09:12:33 am
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Somewhere in recent times Programs became Applications .
So;
Are the Computer Programmers now known as Computer Applicators? :w2: :l2: :dontknow:
Inquiring minds just need to know????
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at least they're soft when applying stuff :icon_biggrin:
programmers died during Y2K, they were replaced by coders, which are dyeing as we type, replaced by programs the computer creates on it's own, artificially of course
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Well, no. :icon_biggrin: But good thought!
I have a number of "programmer" friends who would pull out their knives if they read this. No sure why, :dontknow: but they do not like being labelled as a programmer.
They call themselves: Coders, software engineers, (just) engineers, analysts, but NOT "programmers." I have no clue why this is so.
I programmed Fortran in HS/college and later as a hobby; I was definitely a programmer, but not a pro. Maybe that's the difference.
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which are dyeing as we type
And typing as they die... [ba dum tishhh]
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I figured with everyone I know angry at how MicroSlop is flushing themselves right down the pishadoo a bit of
computer levity was in order. Actually I went to an open mic at a comedy club with a few friends and they ragged on me to get up.
This got a really good response. So did my other stuff but the mods might have to scramble for the delete button! :help: :l2: :cussing:
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I started writing code circa '79 at machine level, 1101.....advanced to Assemblers n dis-assemblers, MOV F2 LOC 3A, jumped up to tiny-BASIC, FOR X = 1 to 10. but at heart I've always been the hardware guy
the whole field of programming has gone the way of College sports, a once honorable pursuit has become corrupted by chasing the money
to paraphrase the original Tesla;
"Physic's was an honorable field of endeavor until the mathematicians got involved"
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to paraphrase the original Tesla;
"Physic's was an honorable field of endeavor until the mathematicians got involved"
:icon_biggrin: Careful now, that's exactly why I got into Fortran . . .
As I heard the story, Tesla couldn't stand imaginary numbers. That said, he was a competent maths guy.
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the whole field of programming has gone the way of College sports, a once honorable pursuit has become corrupted by chasing the money
Love it!
Of course we can also:
the whole field of (insert a pursuit of choice) has gone the way of College sports, a once honorable pursuit has become corrupted by chasing the money
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Tesla couldn't stand imaginary numbers
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imagine the math guy; "That can't work, the math says so" as the Physicist is MEASURING "it" working
so math goes n creates an imaginary friend
when I was 1st made to crank out complex equations just to "prove I could", I was all in the teachers stuff.
I went down the rabbit hole of "history of imaginary numbers"
supposedly some Euro-dude of 1800-somethins was waiting on his date so he was just putting random numbers into quadratic equations n stumbled on a number-set that "wouldn't calculate", spent the next few days coming up with a "work-around"
coming from the field of super-conductors, the physics guys had no problem accepting "It's working" without getting all panty-bunched that "Normal math" couldn't account for it's working
was always humbled working on those spooky-math systems