> —my Dad (who is technical but not a programmer by trade)
If he wrote it in a 'real' programming (textual) computer language you might have written that differently. You might have written "technical but not really a programmer" or something.
> Does it matter that he didn't write any code? No.
Yes, it does, because if he had you would have given him credit for being a programmer and acknowledged that his application is complicated.
I wonder how long it took your father to create that application with FileMaker. I would like to see how long it would take you to code it "from scratch" using your favorite "real" programming system.
> If he wrote it in a 'real' programming (textual) computer language you might have written that differently. You might have written "technical but not really a programmer" or something.
I wrote it the way I did because it's more nuanced than that. My dad can program. He's written assembly and knows some C. But he's not a programmer by trade—he's a hardware guy.
If he wrote it in a 'real' programming (textual) computer language you might have written that differently. You might have written "technical but not really a programmer" or something.
> Does it matter that he didn't write any code? No.
Yes, it does, because if he had you would have given him credit for being a programmer and acknowledged that his application is complicated.
I wonder how long it took your father to create that application with FileMaker. I would like to see how long it would take you to code it "from scratch" using your favorite "real" programming system.