My Love of Coding

[neuroman9999]

Wifey STILL likes WordPerfect more than she likes MS Word. Me? Hardly matters.

not to me either. I've used both. and both are just fine. why care?

 

[The_Doc_Man]

For once we may be in agreement. I'm a firm believer that when it comes to word editors, "If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with." And apologies to Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young for bringing them into the fracas.

 

[neuroman9999]

"If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with."

nice one. and speaking of many tools that do exactly the same thing, see all of these:

Comparison of JavaScript-based web frameworks - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

React

React is the library for web and native user interfaces. Build user interfaces out of individual pieces called components written in JavaScript. React is designed to let you seamlessly combine components written by independent people, teams, and organizations.

reactjs.org

Angular

The web development framework for building modern apps.

angular.io

Dart programming language

Dart is an approachable, portable, and productive language for high-quality apps on any platform.

dart.dev

Vue.js

Vue.js - The Progressive JavaScript Framework

vuejs.org

Node.js — Run JavaScript Everywhere

Node.js® is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine.

nodejs.org

jQuery

jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library

jquery.com

 

[Isaac]

Because the greatest honor for any yuppie coder is to have 'founded' a new coding language. Never mind it might look, smell and taste 93.7% the same as the last one. It's the yearning to be called: "So and so - the original author of ___"

 

[neuroman9999]

It's the yearning to be called:

called to what? who?

 

[Uncle Gizmo]

People with older coding language skills are in great demand, according to this article:-

These old programming languages are still critical to big companies. But nobody wants to learn them | TechRepublic

Large organizations still rely on ageing IT systems and programming languages to run their mainframes. But as traditional developers reach retirement age, new hires are reluctant to pick up old skills.

www.techrepublic.com

 

[NauticalGent]

I wonder when it will become more advantageous to "upgrade" the language over training new programmers. I hated COBOL when I took it at ECPI and even if I had retained the knowledge, the idea of maintaining a company's system isn't even close to appealing. I suppose if the money was VERY attractive I could swallow my distain.

Then again, at what price do you draw the line at? The article mentioned the robustness and stability of COBOL being a major deciding factor, but I'd lay dollars to donuts the cost of "re-tooling" is even more (a factor).

 

[conception_native_0123]

People with older coding language skills are in great demand, according to this article:-

These old programming languages are still critical to big companies. But nobody wants to learn them | TechRepublic

Large organizations still rely on ageing IT systems and programming languages to run their mainframes. But as traditional developers reach retirement age, new hires are reluctant to pick up old skills.

www.techrepublic.com

That's been a hot story for a long time uncle g.

 

[The_Doc_Man]

Along the lines of "older coding languages" and the dearth of people with those skills...

There is the story of the COBOL programmer who had a fatal disease but had his body frozen so that he could live on in cryosleep until his disease could be cured. So time passed (but not for him...)

The programmer wakes up in a really advanced looking clinic. There is a doctor and a nurse, but there are a few other folks who are dressed in strange-looking business suits. When the doctor says, "Sir, we have cured you, but these gentlemen have a question for you...."

So the programmer said, "What kind of a question?"

One of the men says, "Our records tell us you can program in COBOL. You see, we have this Y10K problem next year..."

 

[Uncle Gizmo]

I don't think Adam will understand that joke Richard!

 

[conception_native_0123]

we have this Y10K problem next year..."

ha ha ha ha. =) think again uncle g!