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I've always been curious as to what "normal" people think programming is like. The wildest theory I've heard is "typing ones and zeroes" (I'm a software engineer)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Just to give the benefit of the doubt, I don't think they actually think you type in binary, I think "1s and 0s" has become a colloquialism used to refer to "programming languages" or in some cases "digital magic I don't understand." They just don't know the words python, javascript, html, bash, rust, c, c++, c#, F#A# infinity, etc.

I hope.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They've probably seen Assembly code and that looks quite like binary if you don't pay much attention.

[–] Chobbes 2 points 10 months ago

I feel like if you don’t know any different assembly will look like any other programming language. Just a bunch of words on lines that you don’t understand.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I appreciate the GYBE reference