No mission critical stuff is done on JS anywhere. This joker confuses GUI scripting and programming. And sorry, JS is a real piece of trash. The only "awesome" thing about it is how wrong it gets most things. Of course, when your comparison is PHP, then JS may look pretty good.

The problem is that not that many people are able to use assembler these days, because they do not get it. It is still needed in numerous places and if you cannot even do small stuff with it, then you are not a professional programmer.

I agree, Brooks is as relevant today as it was when it was written. People are still making the same stupid mistakes and still believe that technology can fix their inadequacies. It cannot.

Quite frankly, I just finished a larger project for a customer and what I did strongly resembles what I would have done 30 years ago: Define what the solution must do, do an architecture, a design, define interfaces, and then code the thing. The only thing that is different is that the C code was a web-server module and that the in-memory database may go up to 10G instead of the 100k or so it would have 30 years ago.

Really, nothing has changed much, unless you are at the very-low skill end of things, where you can now produce bad code in ways you could never before.

"Formal standards" are a small subset of all standards. Your abuse of language does not make you right in any way. As to your Ad Hominem: It clearly shows you are a troll and not interested in the subject here at all. This also marks you as a sadist that gets off on talking down to people. Pathetic.

As to qualifications and education, without going into specifics, my guess would be that I am so far beyond your level that you cannot even grasp where I am. Nit-picking like you do (and grandstanding about it) is the hallmark of a small and truly limited mind.

That bad? Well, I believe you and I am glad I never invested significant time into PHP.

Incidentally, while revocation is the critical part of the whole certificate system (I learned that, oh, 25 years ago in a university lecture on "authentication systems", so it has been known to anybody that wanted to find out for at least 5 years longer), most people do not get that at all. You can routinely tell people apart into those that get what crypto can do and what it cannot and those that are clueless, merely by asking about certificate revocation. Incidentally, there still is no certificate revocation system that works, even after at least 30 years or so of research. The only thing that works to some degree is shipping revocation lists with browser updates. But that is neither a good solution, nor a general one.

As many, may other have before, because this problem is not really solvable without AU that can recognize a person? Well, it is a waste of taxpayer money, and fail they will. Biometrics is basically unusable unless you have a security guard monitor the taking of the measurement.

Not quite, but it decidedly requires quite advanced skills to produces anything good with it.

"main()" does not have void as return type, it has "no return type specified". You are also not going back far enough if C89 is the first thing you look at and you are constraining your search too much if you require an "IOS" Standard. There are others around, even if bodies like ISO would probably say they are not standards. Not so.
 

Do you have a language problem? You replique does not fit my statement.

I used to agree with your sentiment, but by now I think it is not doable. And in addition you get a lot of almost completely incompetent people that think they are programmers because they manage (sometimes) to write simple code. This describes the phenomenon: http://blog.codinghorror.com/t...

I fully agree that people need to learn that programming is hard and that people that can do it well are valuable. But this will have to go the way other hard professions became known to be hard, and that is high standards for entry.

Depends on the standard. Even "main()" can be valid.

Well, PHP is a programming language, just not really a general-purpose one.

Anyways, web-stuff is a small part of programming, and not really an important one as it is pretty limited.

Indeed. And JavaScript and PHP are special-purpose languages that are unfit to be user in a general setting. The OP has no clue.

Very true.