Embedded Programming in decline

[Geezerjohn]

Mine is. Wife would completely agree.

 

[Rex]

Larry Wall is a trained linguist. His goal with Perl was to create a programming language with as many possible expressions such as modern English -- good or bad.
PS: interesting, didn't realize Larry Wall and I worked in the same company for a while (Unisys) in the mid-eighties.

Small world. I worked for Unisys in the late eighties, too.

 

[plexi59]

Embedded programming is my bread and butter, and because I specialize in AI and low level optimization on ARM as well, the money is pretty crazy, and I have far more work available to me than I can take on. I also mostly work from home. Life is good, although much of the stuff I deal with would cause PTSD in a “normal” programmer these days.

 

[plexi59]

I used to keep an abacus on top of my V100 terminal, hehehe.

That’s not abacus, that’s a vintage, relic’d computer. True connoisseurs say the quality of computation you get from it can’t be replicated with digital technology.

 

[Toopy14]

True connoisseurs say the quality of computation you get from it can’t be replicated with digital technology.

Don’t let Cliff hear you say that!

 

[Rex]

That’s not abacus, that’s a vintage, relic’d computer. True connoisseurs say the quality of computation you get from it can’t be replicated with digital technology.