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[-] Phrodo_00@lemmy.world 35 points 4 months ago

Under this definition, using mspaint is programming

[-] Dagnet@lemmy.world 22 points 4 months ago

Time to add 10 years of programming experience to my CV

[-] andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Fair point. There's a fine line between programming and creating data that a program operates on. I tend to think writing text to produce nontext output is more programming than not.

[-] frezik@midwest.social 5 points 4 months ago

There are programming languages that are entirely visual. In fact, I could parse the pixels in a bitmap created by ms paint and make it into programming.

It's not even that hard. Assign a set of color values to a character in Brainfuck. Iterate through each pixel and do the translation. Throw away color values that don't match. Run the result through the Brainfuck compiler.

If I'm really crazy, I could implement the instructions directly rather than translating, but translation is easier.

[-] CapeWearingAeroplane@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 months ago

Aaaaand you've now reinvented punch cards for Brainfuck in mspaint. How do you feel about yourself?

[-] frezik@midwest.social 2 points 4 months ago

Just fine, thank you.

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