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“Coding is basically just ifs and for loops.”
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#63Computers are just infinite tape marked out into squares... (Turing machine). A pyramid is just a stack of cubic rocks.
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#64This is funny, but it's like saying "Math is basically pluses and minuses". I see coding as playing with hardware without having to use soldering iron.
Mathematics is "just" set theory and everything else, including arithmetic, can be built on top of that.
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#65That first reply is so funny to me because it hits too close to home https://twitter.com/nice_byte/status/1466940940229046273 The more I do this, the more I gravitate towards the simple things.
Despite being a joke, I know it's the "Ha Ha Only Serious" [0] sort. I can't help but think this is severely biased by the trends of "enterprise software," where you eventually "give up", and clock your 9–5 writing if+for making a fine living, but erroneously pass that off as a mature, Jedi-like way of thinking about programming, like the meme suggests. (And, consequently, you spend no less time debugging hairy, nest…
> debugging hairy, nested, imperative conditionals with for-loops that are off-by-1
Isn't this just a complicated case of ifs and fors?
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#66my professor at uni always said that machine code is just 1's and 0's and if you can count to one you can understand computers
(with a smile on his face and shrugging his shoulders)
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#67There’s a joke in the fp community I can’t find right now that describes the evolution of programs from imperative side-effectful statements to a for comprehension, with exception catching, that looks nearly identical.
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#68That first reply is so funny to me because it hits too close to home https://twitter.com/nice_byte/status/1466940940229046273 The more I do this, the more I gravitate towards the simple things.
Despite being a joke, I know it's the "Ha Ha Only Serious" [0] sort. I can't help but think this is severely biased by the trends of "enterprise software," where you eventually "give up", and clock your 9–5 writing if+for making a fine living, but erroneously pass that off as a mature, Jedi-like way of thinking about programming, like the meme suggests. (And, consequently, you spend no less time debugging hairy, nest…
It’s just so sad that the lowest common denominator has become the standard now. When I first learnt Clojure it entirely changed the way I think and solve problems. The code really was elegant.
Obviously, it can only be read by someone who can also understand programming beyond ifs and fors. That’s a non-starter in most environments - enterprise or otherwise.
Funny enough, I see most innovations coming from consultants who do the same work for multiple companies and realise the repeating patterns and extract an abstraction.
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#69A Turing machine is basically just ifs in a loop.
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#70No, coding is just converting some data into other forms of data.
I once told a girlfriend that's what I did. It worked, she wasn't impressed with my job at all after that.
In the eyes of an 85 year old Italian woman I was a "writer"(or perhaps just "typist" - something could have been lost in translation).
Fair enough.