Mastodawn

I am so old, I actually learned how to program software agents in JAVA back in 1994 as part of my computer science studies. At the time it was supposed to be the future of IT. Software agents would roam the internet for the best deals and report back to me with "job done".

So forgive my "deja vu" reaction when I now hear the same story again, with the main difference being that a deterministic computer language has been replaced with a non-deterministic autocorrect ;)

#SarcasmButOnlyHalf

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KrisBuytaert Feb 24

@jwildeboer that would be really awesome as Java only popped up in late 1995 iirc

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Fabian Transchel Feb 24

@krisbuytaert @jwildeboer Yup, you are correct.

More amazing feels that somehow Java had made it into the IT classes of my school in 2001 - only six years after introduction.

Back then I obviously didn't question that choice, but now I wonder what all the fuzz was about.

We had computers where you could basically visually follow the OS spool up the Java VM and a program call to "hello world" took like 5 seconds.

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Fabian Transchel

@krisbuytaert @jwildeboer It was because of that observation about Java that I got into proper coding, because I thought there is no way anybody would see a future with Bytecode... turns out that wasn't all that wrong.