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What programming languages did we fall in love with in 2018? TIOBE knows the score – Python is their programming language of 2018! If Python is not able to complete it's reign, the duties will be taken up by Miss Congeniality VB
Yeah, another TIOBE random number generated article, but I couldn't resist. I'm a weak, weak man.
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Ah, another year, another moment for me to BASH on these TIOBE ratings.
All in good jest.
First some helpfull things from the article. Python heavily used in AI and machine learning. Oh, I had not realised that. I know a lot of its use with my time on hobby IoT tinkering. These two fields are strong business needs.
However, my itch still persists. Popularity of something does not mean usefulness.
STOP: I have only a very minor knowledge of how the TIOBE index is calculated.
One of the metrics I assume is what people are posting questions and talking about across the internet. This defiantly can be a helpful indication, but also misleading.
I assume the IDE Scratch sees i sizeable install base. That is great for getting people started into code. Same I think for a number of languages.
So a question I have is what is the curve for when people start using a language professionally (earning money) and when switching from asking questions to reading documentation and finding existing questions?
For reference I have found some of the tutorials on Unity very well to follow, which compared to 10 years ago I might have posted a number of forum questions but now have little need.
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Part of the reason I started this series of book reviews was to get a feel for how approaches to debugging have changed over the years. Similarly, I’m interested in seeing what has stayed the same, perhaps parading around in different guises. The Woz debugs?
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I confess that I'm completely at sea on his motivation for doing this.
Who is ever going to need to read these books?
It's like reviewing 18-century tomes on saddle maintenance for the BMW Owners' Club.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: saddle maintenance for the BMW Owners' Club
They might enjoy reading about transportation designed without turn indicators.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Peter_in_2780 wrote: They might enjoy reading about transportation designed without turn indicators.
Je ne comprends pas.
Why would they want to read about the absence of things that they don't know exist?
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I'm still working my way through The Art of Computer Programming. It takes time, but I think there's still a few of a us reading ancient tomes.
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Or like flat-earth "scientists" going into orbit 
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Nearly a century-and-a-half ago, British philosopher John Stuart Mill explained, in a few clear sentences, why certain arguments simply won’t go anywhere. Yet we persist
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Yeah, and then he went and died, because he knew couldn't provide proof, and was afraid to face my rational arguments!
What a 1053R and a total troll!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Yet we persist
No we don't.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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PeejayAdams wrote: No we don't.
Is this the five-minute argument, or the full half hour?
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The past few years have seen a boost in popularity of the functional programming paradigm. So.. safe for werewolf programmers?
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I'm all-out against it.
My code is totally non-functional.
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Gosub for the win?
TTFN - Kent
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On Error Return Next to bring it home. 
When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others.
Same thing when you are stupid.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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PERFORM VARYING hop-procedure FROM 1 BY 1 UNTIL bored
For a rainy day.
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How dare you sully this forum with COBOL! 
...however, now that you have perhaps we should, in the light of currently fashionably social mores, be all switching to it as it was designed by a WOMAN! Even if she was an admiral!
No one can argue against that - without being a misog... oh, forget it.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Yes, we know.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Oh dear, what abstraction level does that guy have! Using the current index of an object in a list as an identifier, and then discussing if that should start at 0 or 1 because of UI concerns... Nowhere mentioning concurrency as an issue.
Oh no, send him back to elementary classes.
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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Open source browser tries to avoid publicizing your dirtier computing habits. I think they may have found their killer feature
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I detest "dynamic" home pages that show recent sites and unstructured favourites. They're such a waste of fruggin' time.
I've just finished setting up a Pale Moon (a branch of FF) interface in a way that I like it. The joy of Pale Moon is that it just gives you a blank page, where you can add link widgets (I've just decided that that's the official name for home-page linky graphics), and make them any size you like.
Folders are created through the context menu, but are essentially entries in a properties script, and have their own unique addresses, so I made a bunch of folders for different themes, sized them so that they only show their captions, and made links to each folder within each folder (so each folder page has a link to every other folder page, and also a link to itself).
Having arranged the folder links down the sides of the folder pages, using the same grid locations each time, they look almost like a tree-view in a file manager, and because they're on each page, they're always present.
Drop a bunch of appropriate link widgets in each folder, and Bob's your uncle: a phenomenally usable and intuitive browser home page. Gotta be my all-time favourite.
... So now I'm waiting for the "upgrade" when they'll completely **ck it up.
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Is is hiding your visits to Stack Overflow?
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Many people slouch or strain their necks while working at the computer. A new study shows how jutting the head forward to read more closely compresses the neck and leads to neck and shoulder problems. Yes they can.
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