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#Code Is never old #programming Lines are Infinite
Chao-c'@RadioAzureus @nixCraft I think programming today is more like gluing stuff together or playing with lego.
(almost) nobody thinks about underlying algorithms any more. Most people just import existing libraries for (almost) everything. (Including me, but I at least remember times, when inventing useful or faster or memory efficient algorithm was a thing...)
I'm one of those people who still wrote static HTML in periods where people were already working with #database back ends
I knew how to do the #programming with them, with a database or more, it was just more fun to write #static #HTML that I learned by head
I also did photography with film, while most were dumping their ASLR for digitals, not realizing the required skills of analog, to properly use them.
As with simple tasks like hello world printing on displays, it would be impossible for a current kid to write that for the C64 8bit, do a JSR $FFD2 and write the bytes one by one to the VIC chip display area with that ROM routine that I obviously still know by heart
@RadioAzureus @nixCraft yes, but between 8bit coding, which is mostly obsolete, and today's high level programming, there is huge gray zone of important intermediate level coding skills, which are what mostly makes the world running.
There was nice xkcd comic for this... there are important core libraries, used by almost everyone, well understood by relatively few and maintained by literally one.