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Thursday February 28, 2002
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Progression as a programmer
Isn't it funny how you progress as a programmer? I often look at code I wrote a year ago, or even six months ago, and say to myself, "What was I thinking here?" or, "Why didn't I do it *this* way?". I guess that's a good thing - it means I'm getting better as I go (I hope).
Today I learned how to dup a filehandle (specifically STDOUT, STDIN, STDERR). Laugh all you want, I just never needed or wanted to do it until now. I mean, I've open'ed up STDOUT to
Last night I woke up again in the middle of the night and decided to kill some time by reading a bit of "C++ Primer Plus", published by The Waite Groupe. Now, it's been a long time since I looked at C++, but as I read over it I realized a few things:
- Without ever really writing a true C++ program, I could still follow the code easily.
- I don't like C++ syntax
- I don't know that I could ever go back to a strongly typed language unless my livelihood absolutely depended on it.
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In another way, of course, it's a good sign. Means you're picking up on things naturally that you hadn't noticed before.
As for the typing thing...it bothers me that German has gender-specific pronouns. Does it bother me so much I can't understand German? Nope. Am I still going to learn it, even though it feels vastly inferior to English? Sur
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