Mastodawn

Folks are gonna need to stop with the "grandma on the computer" to mean uneducated users tropes soon.

I was writing and debugging code to a cassette tape drive before a lot of folks who say this nonsense were even born. I have built my own computers from the case up. My first computer class in college was COBOL. I hard coded websites before there were any tools to do it with.

I'm 52.

What I find is that most of the yunguns have no fucking idea how they work and couldn't find a command line if their life depended on it.

So, yanow, maybe stop.

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RonInDortmund

@TheJen Wrote my first programme (English spelling!) in PL/1 in 1969. Learned 360/Assembler in 1970. Modified IBM operating systems to make them faster. Later somehow drifted into management, consulting, sales training so lost touch with the bits and bytes.

You are so right about the current generation, though. None of them know the difference between a feature and a benefit. Which is why so much software now is loaded with features which bring me no benefit. And don't get me started on UIs...