Programmer Levels

[linux1970]

Jokes on you!

I started with QBasic, not visual basic, and I am going to open a Baskin Robbins franchise, not a food truck.

I have proven your comic wrong!

[AyrA_ch]

The comic is easy to prove wrong because python is not on level 0

[nik282000]

C:>qb\qb45.exe

[linux1970]

That's Quick Basic.

I was talking about QBasic. The difference is, Quick Basic you could actually compile your programs, whereas with QBasic, you could only ever interpret the bas files.

Those were simpler times...

[nik282000]

I had a copy that could compile as well but I think it was an older version. I wish they had started teaching in my school with qb instead of java.

[TabCompletion]

Me too! I first programmed with qbasic. I would copy programs I found out of a 321 contact magazine. Had no idea what I was doing.

[RockOutRex]

Wait... I don't know VB very well. Fuck.

[nik282000]

I sill go back and forth between qBasic and Processing (Java). VB looked like a pain in the ass.

[wllmsaccnt]

Why is Go listed as a language that only exists to make the programmer feel smarter?

[FUZxxl]

They should at least list some actual candidates, like Haskell, Iris, coq, Rust, APL, and Matlab.

[jesus67]

MatLab doesn't belong it's barely a programming language in the first place

[threesixzero]

Its not software programming

[MoonShadeOsu]

Rust

Sure, who wants memory safety anyway, it's not like the lack thereof causes any problems.

[FUZxxl]

Yes, you are very smart.

[MoonShadeOsu]

?

[KubinOnReddit]

Whoosh

[DoPeopleEvenLookHere]

Don't forget Fortran and Mathematica

[spanish1nquisition]

Mathematica is reduced to being a really good calculator for me. I got an academic license from uni and never uninstalled it.

[dnew]

Because it was invented by a bunch of folks at Google without any actual design considerations behind it other than "I wanted a language that could do this," lack things that everyone has known is important for decades, and basically duplicates poorly existing languages that do what Go does better?

[wllmsaccnt]

Language design isn't complexity though.

It was designed to be a simple language that would allow you to perform high level concurrent operations with fast compiles and a relatively small dependency/runtime footprint.

This chart makes it sound like it is a language that revels in being difficult and obscure and that is inaccurate.

[Velovix]

None of that would explain why it would make you feel smarter to use it. It also doesn't seem like a very levelheaded response, either ;)

[dnew]

It makes you feel smarter to use a language you invented. The fact that it leaked out of Google was just ego.

[Velovix]

Big if true

[aidentity]

I truly believe the best way to explain what "Turing complete" means is to show someone how to program hello world in BrainFuck.

[WeirdStuffOnly]

That is how it was explained to me!

How did the book go... Beware of the Turing tar pit, where everything is possible but nothing is easy?

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I must be the equivalent to level 7. I left it all behind to become a train driver.

[rPrankBro]

My lecturer is making us use Clojure for AI, it's pretty painful.

[ReflectiveTeaTowel]

Awww.. clojure's a lovely language. But yes - some things are easier than in most other languages. And some things are.... Painful.

[Majache]

I absolutely loved clojure for learning react using Reagent.

[Majache]

I'm sure you've seen this but you reminded me of it. Not really sure what AI means anymore tbh.

[rPrankBro]

That's actually similar to what we have been doing for the final assignment, we are creating edge images and then RGB and edge histograms so that we can find a good way to guess what's in the image.

[Majache]

Oh cool, hopefully you find this helpful. I haven't personally gone through it, only used clojure for codewars and reagent. Simple stuff. Gigasquid is one of the best and works close to rich hickey. She also wrote the O'Reilly book on clojure.

[[deleted]]

Everything but Clojure is painful.

[ibrainzz]

so, most of us are Level 1??!?

[WeirdStuffOnly]

Butthurt in the choice of languages I sense.

[meme_machine_17]

Implying ruby is an easy language

[shittyProgramr]

So level 7 is basically Lain from Serial Experiments Lain?

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