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To those not in the IT industry, what do you think programming is like? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 10 months ago by httpjames@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I've always been curious as to what "normal" people think programming is like. The wildest theory I've heard is "typing ones and zeroes" (I'm a software engineer)

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[–] Hello_there@kbin.social 62 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You learn a special type of Spanish and somehow you make MS Word come out

[–] 200ok@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This one is the closest, IMO!

Is it common knowledge that programmers write code in different "languages" (e.g. Java and C++)?

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My god, that's terrible. Programmers from different countries must never understand each other. Someone should create a single programming language to rule them all ! something easy to understand, ideally -that everyone could read and write easily. Something like Espéranto, but with 1s and 0s

[–] CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Relevant

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

I knew what this was 😁