Comment by irishcoffee
23 days ago
They don't. The "simplicity" of using a "high-level" framework for someone who bit-shifts for a living is almost comical.
23 days ago
They don't. The "simplicity" of using a "high-level" framework for someone who bit-shifts for a living is almost comical.
I met someone who bit shifts for life, uses opengl shaders for compute, but has no sql experience and is afraid of opening a tcp socket.
Trivial under plan9/9front. Under Win32/POSIX, run way.
On bit shifts, pick any Forth programmer and shaders will be almost like a toy for them. They are used to implement double numbers (and maybe floats) themselves by hand by just reusing the only integer numbers they have and writting custom commands to output these pairs of integer as double numbers. They can probably implement multithreading processing by hand in Forth and also know the IEEE standards for floats better than C programmers over 20 years.
Sure mate. And the guy who can do binary sums in his head would think of assembly as mere childsplay.
Jog on.
It was an example. Pedantry is alive and well on hn. :)
Thruth to be told, Dunning–Kruger effect is common among those who "shift bits" :)
I’m completely convinced I’m a dogshit programmer. You’re probably right.
bit shifting isn't impressive lol
Really?
I know literal kernel developers who can handle drivers and race conditions any day of the week who can't wrap their mind around Outlook, let alone GUI updates.
Myself. Forth it's easy, 9front C it's manageable but POSIX it's hell and managing both Unix descendants are a piece of cake.
GUI interfaces for the enterprise came from Dante's hell themselves. I hate them, they are like the Madhouse from that Asterix movie making satire of the European bureucracy of the day. The often are oddly designed and they are not documented at all, you must guess the meaning by chance of with a senior tutoring you.
The same with anything corporate from Microsoft with AD roles/group policies and the like. Or anything coming from IBM.
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