At the end of the day it either works, or it doesn't. Identity politics doesn't come into it. The machine doesn't care about your race, religion, gender, creed, national origin, sexual orientation, or any damned thing else. The computer cares about the code. Nothing more, nothing less.

No. Languages like Assembly and Cobol are low level languages.

They're "binary mnemonic" languages meaning that what you're writing is essentially just a mask of the binary code the assembler will generate. Somebody that's talented with Assembly can tell you the binary sequence each line of their code should generate once it's run through the assembler (for their system).

C-derived languages offer a layer of abstraction that's intended to make your code universal. C code gets run through a compiler that translates it into a lower level language (like Assembly), and then that gets assembled into binary.

Switch to *nix, you'll be OK.

And so did Java 8, and Java 7, and Java 6, and ...

Find a recruiter that can match your skill set to a company offering the job you want.

That's why I set up my own instance of GitHub CE on a private server. Fuck Microsoft.

GG

My graduating class was five students.

I graduated with a BS in CS less than two years ago, and I can see this being very true. The attrition rate for CS students is absurd.