Re: Programming for Electronics Engineers
From: Danny T (danny_at_nospam.oops)
Date: 01/16/05
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Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 18:24:33 +0000
John Larkin wrote:
> Modern OS's have gone a long way to making
> programming something only pros have time to learn.
It's actually the *exact* opposite. Every year it gets easier and easier
to program. All the time, we're deciding it's too much work to do simple
jobs, so we add more and more levels of abstraction through more and
more languages.
I started to write a Tetris game in C++ once. I gave up before I got
anywhere, but writing to the screen was a massive task in itself. Today,
we have C# with Managed DirectX that allowed even a newbie like me to
create a 3D world containing meshes, and moving a camera around in 3D.
This in less than a few screenfulls of code.
Sadly, it means more and more people out there to take my job from me ;-(
-- Danny
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