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Learn a real second language instead of coding. There's a bigger chance that you'll meet someone during holiday than that someone walks up to you and starts talking indexes and generics.
Yes, coding is important, but not in everyday life. Never will be.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Learning to code doesn't make you a good programmer any more than learning a language makes you a good writer.
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Although 80 percent of enterprises are investing in AI today, one in three business leaders believes their company will need to invest more over the next three years to keep pace with competitors. Tomorrow's AI is todays big if statement
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Al Bundy 
!false - It's funny, because it's true
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I don't need AI to see a bubble...
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I say the 80% stat is pure nonsense. I doubt it's more than 0.8%
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Created for utility and known for its dedicated users, Perl has proven staying power. Here's a brief history of the language and a look at some top user groups. The traditional gift is pearl (somewhat appropriate)
modified 12-Oct-17 17:19pm.
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Hmmm,
I started using the Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister way back in 1994 on the SCO Unix platform. The syntax was much more C-like back then... but I still needed some support. So naturally I posted on the Perl mailing list to ask a few questions.
I never delete any old e-mails which include all of my e-mails from the 1990's... so recently I opened my old Qualcomm Eudora[^] mail client (Yes, it still runs on Windows 10 !) and took a trip down memory lane... and what did I find? I stumbled across my old Perl support correspondence with Larry Wall[^] from the mailing list. Amazing that he took the time to respond to support requests back then. The internet was so much smaller in the late 80's and early 90's.
I am no longer writing anything in Perl... and looking at my old code from the 90's I can barely comprehend it.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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Randor wrote: and looking at my old code from the 90's I can barely comprehend it.
Looking at my old code from this morning I can barely comprehend it 
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Title said:
Perl turns 30 and its community continues to thrive
FTFY ==> Perl turns 30 and its community continues to thrive strive. 
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Perl does have it's uses (Lots of useful one liners out there), and its Regex stuff (the core of many one liners) is quite powerful.
Other than that, it's a rather bizarre language.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Don't underestimate the amount of time, effort and capital required to successfully launch a software business. It's amazing anyone tries
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Anytime the helpdesk comes over and complains about some bug, I remind them that if I wrote perfect software they'd be out of a job.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Don't underestimate the amount of time
Make sure to double the time you think it needs.
modified 13-Oct-17 14:27pm.
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Researchers describe a fast new way of exploring complex data structures. Because cats know the internet?
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Microsoft is hoping developers will be updating their UWP apps en masse to support their new Fluent Design language, and to help them along Microsoft has published an app in the store that demonstrates all the controls available. Sadly not compatible with VB6
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Malware researcher encounters bogus download links during multiple visits. "The lunatics have taken over the asylum"
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Find out if your development tools and methods match up to today’s state of the practice—and how that practice will evolve. Apparently I'm in as un-modern a dev org as can possibly be
Well, we are using Git and GitHub, but other than that, I think it's pretty much 0.
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Mainframe developers are not just retiring, they are expiring -- and young developers have little interest in mainframe careers. "I come from the Net - through systems, peoples, and cities - to this place: MAINFRAME."
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mainframe careers
You can still make a career out of mainframes? (And yes, the company I work for has COBOL programmer positions on their job listing board.  )
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Marc Clifton wrote:
You can still make a career out of mainframes?
Nowadays it's called cloud computing.
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
* GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
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I just spoke with a client t'other day that mentioned they were having all kinds of problems with their AS-400 since one of their guys retired!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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AS 400 are rock solid.
We had a disaster event at a previous job. The [flat] roof of the dilapidated building dry rotted and collapsed with several inches of water during a tropical storm. The entire server room and building was flooded and we had to shut down for days.
A disaster recovery team was called in to clean and restore the hardware. It was an exciting event with everything from an on-site mainframe, AS-400s, MS SQL Servers, and Web Servers (we had 3 different database technologies in play with a nightly process trying to keep them all in sync). We literally went from technology to technology without ever converting all the old stuff forward. We had a motley mix of developers - some looked ready to expire.
Anyway, these disaster recovery guys said AS-400 is rock solid. They picked it up, shook the muddy water out and turned it back on. No problems
Not everything else came back online 
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Pualee wrote: They picked it up, shook the muddy water out and turned it back on. No problems
We just went through a less dramatic but similar experience. They had to shut down building power last night to replace a faulty electrical panel. This meant that hundreds of machines had to be turned off overnight.
For our group, it included a dozen lab systems plus our three build servers. One of the servers has been continually powered up for years, and only very rarely restarted. All started up successfully this morning, much to my surprise and grateful relief.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I suspect a lot of the work will end up outsourced to Elbonia, etc by default. With the resultant effects because even there the better devs will avoid it leaving only their bottom of the barrel to do maintenance. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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