visual basic programmer
someone who *thinks* they know how to program, but in reality is pretty average... almost always don't really understand the inner workings of a computer... they get scared by things like call stacks, registers, pointers, assembly, or anything that has to do with the guts of a computers...
also, they are generally not smart enough to do embedded development...
also, they are generally not smart enough to do embedded development...
embedded developer: i just hacked the can bus in my car... used a philips tja1050 transceiver, paired it up to a mcf5485 coldfire, developed the logger and gauge renderer in C (gasp!) using codewarrior and spat the image data out to the tft in my car to have virtual gauges on everything!
what have you developed lately?
visual basic programmer: an ftp server...
embedded developer: oh... cool...
what have you developed lately?
visual basic programmer: an ftp server...
embedded developer: oh... cool...