Comments by "Lepi Doptera" (@lepidoptera9337) on "God-Tier Developer Roadmap" video.

  1. Dudes... a rundown of programming languages is NOT an education. It's just more internet bullshit. :-)
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  2. No it isn't. Every compiler in the world compiles loops and other control structures to the machine language equivalent (branch instructions) of "go to".
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  3. Verilog isn't about physical design. It's a general purpose system design language that just happens to have "to silicon" compilers. It also won't help you to become a chip designer. That's about much, much more than knowing one of the input languages.
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  4. Yes, but how do you pry the box with the serial number for the extinct COBOL compiler out of the dead engineer's bony hands? ;-)
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  5. The "I will become a full stack developer by watching YouTube videos!" war cry is a drug. :-)
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  6.  @hyperpony4865  Millions of posts on the internet tell you that you can become a full stack developer in three weeks by taking an introduction to Python on Youtube and then you will earn a million bucks as a self-certified software engineer. ;-)
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  7. I began coding in Basic and 6502 assembler. Didn't do a thing for me. I didn't get any good at it until I had to teach CS to students as part of a TA job. Even then I didn't do it like a pro until an old dude took me aside and told me to forget half the stuff that I knew about the theory. He replaced all that bullshit in my mind with a few completely counterintuitive strategies that opened my eyes to what is really important (function) and what isn't (form, which is all they "teach" online).
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  8.  @DrunkenUFOPilot  The language collector who doesn't know the first thing about programming is here. ;-)
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  9. HDLs are not really hardware design languages. They are system design languages which have compilers to FPGAs and (and hence all by themselves useless) logic chip designs. The latter can't be used without physical libraries and those are what they actually pay engineers the big bucks for, not for the design of a few registers and state machines. Any child can do the latter.
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  10. You forgot "How to play Chopin like a concert pianist while winning the Super Bowl". :-)
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