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To those not in the IT industry, what do you think programming is like?
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this post was submitted on 06 Jan 2024
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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.
I appreciate the GYBE reference
They've probably seen Assembly code and that looks quite like binary if you don't pay much attention.
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.