>>1 /prog/ died. Pure and simple. It was born feeble and sickly, it was never very healthy to begin with, plagued with troll artists and homework threads. I've never seen a slice of the fabled golden age of /prog/, in which I believed once too.
You may have the occasional, very occasional, glimpse of ingenuity or erudition, but the board seems to have always been plagued with sophomoric discussion in the best of cases, rife with mindless name dropping to impress your peers, and the few people with any knowledge would rather troll preemptively than suffer the snotty CS freshmen that they themselves once were.
It's all a chronic lack of effort on everyone's part, and why should you move a finger to correct it? /prog/ is the programming /b/, /g/ on its best days, and adding a drop of pure and pristine water won't do shit to an ocean of piss.
Actually, let's bump this. I would love to see my post disproved.
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Anonymous2012-03-27 3:41
>>4
Reddit was written in FIOC.
Hacker News was written in Lisp.
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Anonymous2012-03-27 3:50
>>7
Reddit was rewritten in FIOC. The first version was Common Lisp.
Hacker News is written in Arc. The only reason Arc is maintained is to use it for Hacker News.
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Anonymous2012-03-27 3:54
/prog/ thinks the language a program was written in determines its quality
/g/ thinks their computer hardware's capabilities determines how productive they are
/v/ thinks a game's graphics determine how good it is
reddit thinks someone's karma determines their worth
>>5
Its true, go back to the old threads and verify yourselfs, /prog/ was always shit.
But i think it had slightly less spam and a bit more discussions, but otherwise its still the same old shit.
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Anonymous2012-03-27 4:52
>>9
>/prog/ thinks the language a program was written in determines its quality
but it do.
>/g/ thinks their computer hardware's capabilities determines how productive they are
It depends on what you are doing. Editing text and compiling? You don't need much. Working with simulations and generating terabytes of data? You might spend less time waiting around if you have some powerful machine(s) to use.
>/v/ thinks a game's graphics determine how good it is
How good a game is is determined by the user experience, and so is subjective and different for every person.
>reddit thinks someone's karma determines their worth
As do employers with age, and other visible factors. It's what people in general do when they want to make an inference about something with a lack of useful data. They trust their assumptions. Think of it as discrimination.
If you want to blame someone blamed Mr vacuum cleaner for fixing the >>>/board/ syntax, so whenever there's a programming thread on /g/ they get linked to here.
Also it would help if said vacuum cleaner made a fucking sticky of "Which language should I learn first?"
But that's never going to happen.
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Anonymous2012-03-27 8:22
>>13
LOL ROFL LMAO ``MR VACUUM CLEANER'' XDDDDDDDDDDD WHAT A CLEVER WAY TO REFER TO MRVACBOB XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD YOU'RE SO RANDUM AND FUNNY XDDDDDDD YOU SHOULD BECOME A STANDUP COMEDIAN XDDDDD ONLY, RATHER THAN BEING A `STANDUP' COMEDIAN, YOU'D BE A `SITDOWN' COMEDIAN, TELLING MORE MOAR JOKES JOAKS FROM YOUR BASEMENT, WHERE YOU DWELL XDDDDDDD I JUST CALLED YOU A BASEMENT DWELLER XDDDDD ``GO SCRUB ANOTHER TOILET YOU MENTAL MIDGET'' XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDXDDDXDDDDD
But in all seriousness, you can't just blame /prog/'s shitty posts on imageboard users. That's a cop-out. There are tons of shitposters here. I doubt all of them post on the imageboards. So to simply dismiss shitposters are imageboard migrants is silly. There are tons of textboard-native shitposters.
Reminds me of how Americans blame problems on immigrants. It's just a convenient scapegoat.
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Anonymous2012-03-27 8:26
And before any of you faggots respond, no, I am not defending the idiocy of imageboard users. I'm just saying that you're delusional if you think that people who exclusively browse the textboards are all prime examples of what posters here should be.
So go ahead and tell me to go back to imageboards which I don't even browse in the first place. You've done it countless times in the past, and you'll continue to do it in the future. After all, you have nothing more to contribute.
>>13-14
I think it's a combination of the fix by VacBob and the fact that those who suffer under ISP-wide long-rang IP bans are (for whatever reason) still allowed to read and post on dis. I don't blame all people from the imageboards, but there's a correlation between imageboards having easy link access to /prog/ and its ever degenerating state. It's something that should be looked into.
As an experiment, remove easy link access to world4ch, and don't allow wide-banned ISPs/IPs access, either. If there's even so much as a modicum of improvement, then there's something to it, at least (though, it's probably too late).
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Anonymous2012-03-30 7:36
>>31
The links to the textboards are nothing compared to when 4chan used to use frames, with a listing of all the 4chan and World4ch boards.
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Anonymous2012-03-30 8:01
>>32
Yeah, but frames still require one to still go a bit out of their way to get here.
I didn't even realize cross links were fixed (or broken). I still post on the image boards sometimes and I redirect people to the text boards if it's more appropriate (e.g. Japanese language threads on /jp/, or programming threads outside of /g/). /prog/ is linked in the frames and on the front page. No matter how much of an ADD-troubled teenager you are, you can find it. If you want to make newbies better posters, write an FAQ and keep it bumped or something. Shitposters will shitpost no matter what.
>>37 is linked in the frames and on the front page.
They're hidden by default.
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Anonymous2013-08-31 13:27
This is kind of a good idea, since I thought the 3D feature was pointless, but
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Anonymous2013-08-31 14:12
Because you know her personally to call her that? One woman wroned you and you assume all Japanese women are like that? I don't get your hatred and perverstion anon.