Jan Wildeboer 😷Feb 24

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

Show threadKrisBuytaertFeb 24
@jwildeboer that would be really awesome as Java only popped up in late 1995 iirc
Show threadFabian TranschelFeb 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.

Show threadKrisBuytaert
@ftranschel @jwildeboer I remember seeing Duke for the first time at Cebit 1996 , I did some Java work in the 1999 - 2000 era.. but I never really liked the ecosystem , way heavy for my tastes.
Feb 24 at 7:24amWeb
Show threadKrisBuytaertFeb 24
@ftranschel @jwildeboer should have said too many abstraction levels :)