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Python can be very useful for prototyping IoT stuff (like sensors) and to test surveillance cameras. Would you call that programming?
I suppose one can go back to the old argument of "is doing something with a scripting language really programming?" or "if it doesn't compile/link to machine code, it ain't a program" (that includes you C#). I cut my teeth with assembler, couldn't code my way out of a wet paper bag with it today. Anyone remember the real debug?
0ADF:0100 74 13 3A C4 75 0F 80 3E-25 99 00 74 08 FE 06 63 t.:.u..>%..t...c
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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theoldfool wrote: Anyone remember the real debug?
Come in embedded development, where oscilloscope debugging is still a damn @#$!*) thing and being able to skip it and jump to assembly debugging is happy news.
Come to embedded development, we no longer have cookies but follow a healthy diet of antidepressants, alcohol, anxiolitycs and coffee beans (for maximum extraction).
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Ah, the land of the unwashed. Remember it well.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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OriginalGriff wrote: there are much better solutions available.
Depends on the problem domain. For AI and ML there aren't "better solutions available."
Kevin
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Read the names for the first time today.
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I have only heard of: Rust, Python, and Go. Haven't used any of those three.
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Same here, though I did some reading about Rust.
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Yeah, me too. I've heard of Go and Rust and have written some Python. The rest, WTH???
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."
-- Marcus Brigstocke, British Comedian
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Same here.
Life is a computer program and everyone is the programmer of his own life.
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