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by bigbillheck 1875 days ago
If that divide was ever absent, it wasn't absent for long. 'Application programmers' had BASIC in the 80s, Visual BASIC (and delphi hypercard and tcl/tk) in the 90s, then the 00s hit and with it ruby and python and the biggest application language of them all, javascript.