I'm not sure what I do for a living anymore, but some of it involves programming. In this wacky Web 2.0 world, that means using about a million different languages, sometimes all at once. I used to know a lot of programming languages. Now I just Google.

Informal survey time... do you find yourself going to the Google lifeline while coding:

1. They have code on Google?
2. Rarely
3. Frequently
4. Lemme just google that and get back to you...

I dunno, maybe its just the kind of coding I do these days, but it seems I live in d mode. It's getting to the point where I'm not sure I even remember how to code. As long as I can phrase it as a question, however, I can find the code out there and cobble something wonderful together.

I used to know - I mean really know - the innermost trivia and minutia of whatever language it was I was currently spending a lof of time using. When it was C, I could practically see the machine code each statement mapped to. C++? Yeah, I mostly understood the whole enchelata. Java? I admint... that was the beginning of the end. After C++ it all started to blend into one amorphous soup of "kinda OO/C++ish" or "kinda proceduralish" or, "scripty".

Maybe I'm a fabricator now, and not reality a programmer. You know, in some weird way, we've archived a measure of success in software reuse we only dreamt of in the 90s. Yes, the 1990s, way back when I used to think about software reuse and its associated problems.

So, if you're out there and you care, feel free to comment - do you google-code, or do you really-code?