TheJen will not comply6d ago

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.

Show threadRusty6d ago
@TheJen I wish id grown up in that era and done all that!! Modern coding doesn't interest me at all.. And its not worth learning old languages. Especially when anyone can ask a slop bot to spit out code for them. Kind of killed my want to learn any programming.
Show threadTheJen will not comply6d ago
@bridgeenjoyer It was a whole new world. Incredibly exciting. So much fun. Now, not so much.
Show threadRonInDortmund
@TheJen @bridgeenjoyer I had so much fun helping build Europe's first online holiday reservation system with an IBM 360/50 and 9600 baud lines! Programme modules with 800 bytes max. 70 hour weeks, but full of enjoyment and pride in the work.
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Show threadRusty3d ago
@RonInDortmund @TheJen that is awesome what a great memory!