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Of course they would have usable skills - general understanding of computing, superb analytical minds, 36 years of advancement in education, excellent problem s
by kaspm 11y ago
Of course they would have usable skills - general understanding of computing, superb analytical minds, 36 years of advancement in education, excellent problem solving ability.
At most they would have to learn a new lexicon of programming languages and operating systems which are FAR less complicated than the current range of languages and design patterns software engineers must master today.
A few weeks (days?) of studying and figuring out how to pre-optimize for much smaller workloads and they'd be able to keep pace easily.
- dasil003 11y agoI agree with this for the top n% of programmers, but keep in mind there are orders of magnitude more "software engineers" employed today than back then, and many of them are employed in very narrow niches with very powerful tools. Certainly I've seen a great number of so-called programmers that would be utterly unemployable in such low-level environments as we had in the early 80s.
- mark-r 11y agoOh the sweet innocence of youth!