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On 09/29/2021 01:04 PM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> On 29/09/2021 18:01, Clutterfreak wrote:
>> On 9/29/2021 10:57 AM, chrisv wrote:
>>> I can't say that I've met a programming language that I didn't like.
>>
>>
>> I don't like javascript. Period. It's got real problems. By the time
>> it was developed, programming languages had migrated from creators who
>> were essentially scientists to two-bit little "engineers" who'd packed
>> those desk jobs by then, creating newer ones. Complements of Reagan era.
>>
> Er no, wriong way around programming languages had migrated from
> creators who were essentially engineers to two-bit little "computer
> science-tits  who'd packed those desk jobs by then, creating newer ones.
>
>> To this day all real businesses are run by programming languages that
>> were already invented before the wave of "Engineers" arrived and
>> fucked everything up.
>>
> C was written by engineers and mathematicians
> Assembler was written by engineers
> COBOL was written by a mathematician
> C++ was written by a computer scientist.
> Java was written by computer scientists as was Javascript
>
> The worst person to employ in IT is a computer scientist.
> The best people are mathematicians and software engineers.
>

Assembler wasn't exactly written by engineers although they can screw it 
up with AT&T versus Intel syntax. It might have been a patent issue but 
along comes Zilog and they just can't use Intel mnemonics. Lemme see, is 
it MOV or LD?