Programmer Humor
- Me working with the OS
This happend to me right noww as I tried to write a gui task manager for the GNU/Linux OS
- The best answer on StackOverflow: Using RegEx to parse HTMLstackoverflow.com RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags
I need to match all of these opening tags: <p> <a href="foo"> But not self-closing tags: <br /> <hr class="foo" /> I came up with this and wanted to make
- question, When were programmers supposed to be obsolete?
Hi, this is a question that popped into my mind when i saw an article about some AWS engineer talking about ai assistants taking over the job of programmers, this reminded me that it's not the first time that something like this was said.
My software engineering teacher once told me that a few years ago people believed graphical tools like enterprise architect would make it so that a single engineer could just draw a pretty UML diagram and generate 90% of the project without touching any code, And further back COBOL was supposed to replace programmers by letting accountants write their own programs.
Now i'm curious, were there many other technologies that were supposedly going to replace programmers that you remember?
i hope someone that's been around much more than me knows something more or has some funny stories to share
- spreading misinformation online (javascript??)
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Fun fact: Python is the only programming language named after an animal!
.. javascript ???