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Angry programmers noise getting louder and louder (lemmy.world)
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[–] 35 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Under this definition, using mspaint is programming

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    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.

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