> I can't help but being impressed by someone who gets paid for what their
> not qualified to do.

*they're

To be fair, *nobody* in the room really knows C++ properly. I like to 
think I probably understand it better than my colleagues, if only 
because I've *tried* to understand, rather than just hitting it until 
the compiler errors go away...

[If Warp is reading this, he's probably either completely outraged or 
highly amused, I'm not sure which.]

>> You don't understand *any* programming language, or just Haskell?
>
> I can read and mostly understand Basic and ABAP but not write programs.
> I can write programs in PLC languages and do simple coding in machine
> code. I've never got my head around the the higher languages like C and
> its variants.

I had to look up ABAP. It scared me a little bit.

But that's nothing. Today I saw a code review on Stack Overflow. Nothing 
unusual there. Oh, except the language? LOLCODE.

Yes, there's an actual programming language called LOLCODE. Why does 
this exist?

In reference to Haskell... I think part of the problem is that a typical 
example program in Haskell is usually an implementation of a binary 
search tree, or a Huffman compression algorithm, or the 
Knuth-Morris-Pratt algorithm, or k-means clustering, or, you know, stuff 
the typical IT button pusher would understand.

Seriously, implementing those in *any* language is going to look kinda 
complicated. Haskell allows you to do it with way less verbosity. But if 
you have NO FREAKING IDEA what the program is trying to do, the lack of 
verbosity just makes it all the more baffling what's happening. If you 
wrote the same thing in Java, most people would still be baffled.

This is based on my observation that most "programmers" know bugger all 
about computing algorithms. Most of them don't seem to know what a 
binary tree is. Some of them don't even know what binary is! "Web 
developers" seem to be particularly useless; apparently "web developer" 
means "I know how to click on buttons in a content management system".

FizzBuzz, anyone?

>>> Toss her aside and get a young one. ;-)
>>
>> But... she's 5 years younger them me! o_O
>
> Okay get an older one. Be a toy boy. ;-)

My previous dance partner is a year older than my mum. Does that count?

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