"Chambers" <ben### [at] pacificwebguycom> wrote in message
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> The disdain that "real" programmers feel for newbies who crank out quick
> code using "toy" languages is, I think, more akin to the disdain "real"
> mathematicians feel towards business math majors.  Sure, they can "press
> the buttons", but they don't really know what they're doing.  It's not
> about jealousy - after all, many programmers who started out writing
> assembly code are now using higher level languages and cranking out code
> just as quickly.  It's about perceived understanding of what your code
> actually does.

Agreed.

What bugs me no end is that some people don't want to learn. They're not
interested in understanding what the code does. They just want to get
something 'working' (for certain definitions of working) as fast as
possible.

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