{"id":12235,"date":"2010-03-08T09:58:24","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T07:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=12235"},"modified":"2010-03-08T09:58:24","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T07:58:24","slug":"whatever-happened-to-programming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/08\/whatever-happened-to-programming\/","title":{"rendered":"Whatever happened to programming"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Via this Slashdot post<\/a> I came across an excellent blog rant – Whatever happened to programming<\/a> (and the follow-up<\/a>). \u00a0Subject in focus – modern programming, and how boring it have become (mostly).<\/p>\n

Today, I mostly paste libraries together. \u00a0So do you, most likely, if you work in software. \u00a0Doesn\u2019t that seem anticlimactic? \u00a0We did all those courses on LR grammars and concurrent software and referentially transparent functional languages. \u00a0We messed about with Prolog, Lisp and APL. \u00a0We studied invariants and formal preconditions and operating system theory. \u00a0Now how much of that do we use?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, when a subject like that is brought up, it’s pretty much guaranteed that the web will respond with numerous discussions on if and how much of it is true, how did we get here, and how we can get out, and anything else remotely or not at all related. \u00a0And that’s just what happened. \u00a0You can read Slashdot or Reddit comments or Google for more. \u00a0But I think, if you do programming for living, you’d probably agree with the main point of the article. \u00a0And even if you won’t, it’s still fun to read. \u00a0Like this bit for example:<\/p>\n

Especially, I have learned that anything that has \u201cEnterprise\u201d in its name is so incredibly boring that the people who use it had to shove the name of the\u00a0Star Trek<\/em> ship into its title just to keep themselves awake.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

On the serious note though, working with mainly two programming languages – Perl and PHP, I see that there is indeed a difference to the “being boring” degree. \u00a0PHP is way more boring than Perl. \u00a0 Surprisingly even with Perl being so well known for its CPAN – a huge archive of modules and libraries to use. \u00a0 I guess it has something to do with There Is More Than One Way To Do It<\/a> – motto of Perl.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Via this Slashdot post I came across an excellent blog rant – Whatever happened to programming (and the follow-up). \u00a0Subject in focus – modern programming, and how boring it have become (mostly). Today, I mostly paste libraries together. \u00a0So do you, most likely, if you work in software. \u00a0Doesn\u2019t that seem anticlimactic? \u00a0We did all … Continue reading Whatever happened to programming<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,18],"tags":[1192,36,38],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-12235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-programming","tag-computer-science","tag-perl","tag-php"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8495,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/01\/18\/programming-texts-and-tutorials\/","url_meta":{"origin":12235,"position":0},"title":"Programming Texts and Tutorials","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"January 18, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Programming Texts and Tutorials is an excellent resource about anything you ever wanted to know on the subject of UNIX programming in general, and Linux in particular. 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