this post was submitted on 21 Dec 2023
102 points (94.7% liked)

Programming

17333 readers
150 users here now

Welcome to the main community in programming.dev! Feel free to post anything relating to programming here!

Cross posting is strongly encouraged in the instance. If you feel your post or another person's post makes sense in another community cross post into it.

Hope you enjoy the instance!

Rules

Rules

  • Follow the programming.dev instance rules
  • Keep content related to programming in some way
  • If you're posting long videos try to add in some form of tldr for those who don't want to watch videos

Wormhole

Follow the wormhole through a path of communities !webdev@programming.dev

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
snowe@programming.dev
Ategon@programming.dev
MaungaHikoi@lemmy.nz
102
Can one be too dumb for programming? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 10 months ago by stirner@lemmy.ml to c/programming@programming.dev
88 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

I've always flunked at math; and knowing how intertwined programming is with math, I'm skeptical of my ability to learn how to code. Can someone be too dumb to learn programming? If it helps, I'm mostly interested in learning Common Lisp.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca -4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

Have you even heard of systemd? Of course you can't be too dumb for programming. Be lucky enough and you can build the cancer that will slowly grow and eat a hundred distros.

[–] alexdeathway@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago (3 children)

ELI5?

[–] Still@programming.dev 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

babyrage

systemd is an init system that is super popular because it is so not shit and does what people want, and has adjacent projects that interface with it nicely

some people want more variety but put their effort in an unproductive direction

[–] IONLYpost@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How does a great popular system has anything to do with "dumb"?

[–] ursakhiin@beehaw.org 2 points 10 months ago

It's that unproductive direction content. It doesn't. Some people just want to hate things.