Re:Early Nintendo programmer worked without a keyboard
by flukus on Friday April 28, 2017 @01:24AM
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Funny how we revere this guy, but if we replaced him with an anonymous programmer and changed it to working with out source control we'd probably be admonishing him for being a clueless idiot.
>considering the tools and the computing power we have now, but the complexity of software is also pacing at the same speed
I really don't think complexity has increased since the early 90's. How we interact with computers is fundamentally the same now as it was then, with multi-tasking probably being the last major improvement. A good, simple to use green screen application would be (almost) functionally identical to a good, simple to use web application.
Most of the additional complexity seems to be coming from either attempts to remove it or attempts to improve efficiency. I think they've been largely unsuccessful in their aims and now we just have complexity.
>considering the tools and the computing power we have now, but the complexity of software is also pacing at the same speed
I really don't think complexity has increased since the early 90's. How we interact with computers is fundamentally the same now as it was then, with multi-tasking probably being the last major improvement. A good, simple to use green screen application would be (almost) functionally identical to a good, simple to use web application.
Most of the additional complexity seems to be coming from either attempts to remove it or attempts to improve efficiency. I think they've been largely unsuccessful in their aims and now we just have complexity.