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A comment on Ask HN: Old guys, what do you miss about development in the 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s?.

Re:Ask HN: Old guys, what do you miss about development in t... by cperciva on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @11:28PM (#20161535)
In the 1990s nobody thought I was crazy for writing CGI scripts in C.

(I still do it, but now people think I'm crazy.)

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Re:Ask HN: Old guys, what do you miss about development in t... by gHosts on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @01:12AM (#20161938)
Or writing amazing CGI scripts in perl that did amazing things before I realized I had to maintain aforementioned perl scripts.

Turned to shit pretty rapidly, but for a day or three I was wondrously happy.

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Re:Ask HN: Old guys, what do you miss about development in t... by chopdcheez212 on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @11:36PM (#20161581)
You’re not crazy, they’re all crazy!
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