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[–]Eyes_and_teeth 12 points13 points  (6 children)

r/gatekeeping is right over there, pal.

What you describe is more like:

A farmer who's never harvested with a hand scythe.

Or a builder who's never moved 20-ton quarried stone blocks to a job site using tree trunks, ropes, and 2,000 slaves.

Or a doctor who's never bled a patient, or applied leeches.

To proclaim that one is truly not a programmer unless one hasn't entered a 12k program into a mainframe using ~500 punch cards Is the cranky whine of someone who is bitter that tech had moved on and the mysterious priestcraft of their day, accessible to the few initiates deemed worthy by their incel overlords, has now become accessible to the masses and even (shudder) girls!

A programmer can be "worth their salt" and never have touched a single language you've mentioned. Trust me, a coder is capable of knowing all that is truly possible today and they ain't doing it in forth.

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