Well, obviously there's levels of expertise. But they are playing the classic coders' (in the brogrammer world) fallacy (no true Scotsman variant). People say things like "C is the only true coding because it's closer to the metal." and on and on. Classic BS.
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Replying to @o_guest @hisotalus and
It's not just a cool pun BTW. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brogrammer
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"This “JS = Scheme” meme was hugely legimitizing to a horde of programmers feeling unsure of themselves in the face of grizzly C programmers who allocated their own damn memory, probably right after building their own computer out of rocks and twigs." http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2013/07/18/javascript-isnt-scheme/ …
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Replying to @o_guest @hisotalus and
To really boil it down though, just using libraries is what most coders do most of the time and it's legit good practise (for so many reasons, better tested code, etc). If you can't author your own functions though, you probably won't get a job as a programmer.
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Replying to @o_guest @hisotalus and
Brogrammer though want to shuttle between "knowing how to code, the basics, etc" and actually being a software developer, treating them as synonyms where it suits their sexist/elitist argument.
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Replying to @o_guest @aeronlaffere and
To be fair, I don’t think it’s the same guys making these arguments.
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Replying to @hisotalus @aeronlaffere and
It might not be the "same" people but they are in the same discussions and don't seem to debated/discuss it with each other. They only is it to silence the argument for teaching coding. I took on a lot of it here, as you might know. http://neuroplausible.com/coding
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So basically, it's the same/similar people in a rhetorical sense, because they use the enemy of my enemy is my friend mentality.
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