As someone who spends time programming, I of course find myself in conversations with people who aren’t as familiar with it. It doesn’t happen all the time, but these discussions can lead to people coming up with some pretty wild misconceptions about what programming is and what programmers do.

  • I’m sure many of you have had similar experiences. So, I thought it would be interesting to ask.
      • rmuk@feddit.ukEnglish
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        9 months ago

        That reminds me of one of those shit jokes from the eighties:

        “There’s two new ladies in the typing pool who do a hundred times the work of anyone else.”

        “What’re they called?”

        “Daisy Wheel and Dot Matrix.”

        • blazeknave@lemmy.world
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          9 months ago

          Oh man love it. In the 80s, I used to go to my grandmother’s work after school. She was a stenographer at the neighborhood newspaper in Brooklyn. If she was alive she’d probably love this. My mom ran a copy room for a high school but I think it would go over her head.