Reflections of an “Old” Programmer

Re:Reflections of an “Old” Programmer by raarts on Friday October 07, 2016 @02:34AM (#12658658)

I call BS. The progress that was made in the late eighties/early nineties was much more astounding. Going from character screens to fully event driven, windowed graphics mode was a much greater and more impressive change in a shorter time-frame.

the that time you had to learn a lot of new stuff in a short time too.

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Re:Reflections of an “Old” Programmer by dunkelheit on Friday October 07, 2016 @06:16AM (#12659477)

Well, in early 2000-s suddenly most of computers in the world became connected to each other and then after some time everybody got a powerful and networked computer in their pocket. I think this is pretty impressive too.

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Re:Reflections of an “Old” Programmer by jhall1468 on Friday October 07, 2016 @09:18AM (#12660394)

What exactly are you calling BS on? Nothing I said conflicts with your comments at all. It's not like progress can only happen once...

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