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Re:You're never too old to learn to code by Clubber on Friday June 08, 2018 @11:44AM (#17266548)
>your sixteen year old self to write shitty JS code

Lol. JS didn't exist when I was 16, but way to miss the point! Ask your mom how many people knew anything about the computers in the 70s and 80s. It was a very small group of mainly ostracized kids. They certainly weren't doing it to get rich.

Re:You're never too old to learn to code by mikestew on Friday June 08, 2018 @11:56AM (#17266666)
Lol. JS didn't exist when I was 16

Which is why I used it as an example. No need to get personal.

Ask your mom how many people knew anything about the computers in the 70s and 80s.

Don't have to ask, I was there. And the number is irrelevant. Point is, you said there was "zero economic incentive". I'm saying there was plenty of incentive. Perhaps that wasn't your incentive, but that doesn't mean it didn't exist. Because it existed for others, and given that it was their primary incentive, they didn't always enjoy their jobs very much.

Re:You're never too old to learn to code by Clubber on Friday June 08, 2018 @11:59AM (#17266702)
>No need to get personal.

Eh, if you don't want backlash, maybe you shouldn't throw out things like this: "your sixteen year old self to write shitty JS code"

>you said there was "zero economic incentive"

I said, "there was zero economic incentive, at least for me." If you're going to be pedantic, at least read what I wrote.

Re:You're never too old to learn to code by mikestew on Friday June 08, 2018 @12:06PM (#17266780)
Eh, if you don't want backlash, maybe you shouldn't throw out things like this: "your sixteen year old self to write shitty JS code"

You're just bound and determined to take offense, eh? Let me rephrase: "no need to make it personally about you, Clubber".

If you're going to be pedantic, at least read what I wrote.

I read just fine: "When people like us started doing it, there was zero economic incentive..."

Re:You're never too old to learn to code by Clubber on Friday June 08, 2018 @12:33PM (#17267095)
Mike, if you are going to talk shit, at least own it; don't backpedal.

>I read just fine: "When people like us started doing it, there was zero economic incentive..."

Lol. "You didn't build that..."

Re:You're never too old to learn to code by MisterOctober on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @12:43AM (#17300325)
My dad-in-law has a CS degree that be got in like 1968, and there were a lot of folks in the field at that time according to him. He got started in FORTRAN and COBOL -- he was not a hipster nerd by any stretch of the imagination, just a regular nine-to-five dude. I get the impression from him that largely, in the pre-RMS era anyway, regular programmers were just like any other type of engineerish folk