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Don’t You Know Who I Am?

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

In their defense, maybe the post was written by some journalist with no technical background at all and doesn't know the difference.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Very much so. Many non-technical people are still very much in awe when someone drops names of programming languages. And it kinda makes sense. If they have no idea, they naturally equate it to spoken languages. And if someone goes like "I speak these 7 languages", most people would be mightily impressed.

But if you know a few programming languages, adding another similar one might be a matter of hours.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And that list of languages in the article is pretty standard for a BS in CS: a bunch of standard, common languages and one assembly language.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Likely they covered MIPS assembly at university. MIPS is a comparatively simple architecture and thus is used a lot in CS courses.

The thing here is, if they really wanted to show off that she's got a good carreer and doing something remarkable, they could have just done what she did in her comment. List her current position and maybe her education.

I'd not be very happy if someone were to present my skills and achivements as "Can use these programming languages".