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I'm not a software developer and I haven't touched code, aside from pasting some ad script into my website, since trying to copy paste sections of C++ on MUDs in the 1990's.

That's not entirely true, I have been trying to learn Atari BASIC (vintage computer fan, 8-bit Ataris are my interest) but it's slow going. It's more like feeling stupid and growling at my PVM. I do not think like a machine. I'd have better luck writing a sonnet from a can of alphabet spaghetti than I would writing a meaningful bit of code.

People tend to forget HN is more than programmers.




For what it's worth, I'm over ten years into a career in software and have never stopped feeling stupid.




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