12 years of CNC experience here :af: mostly running them. but to be good at running them you have to know what's going on which means reading the program. so I'm not a "programmer" but I can read one and write a basic one on the fly. Most programs now are wrote with autocad or mastercam.
Originally Posted by
e3NiNe
I wonder what programming language those machines are written in. I know machine coders are a rare / dying breed.
G code yo