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> Historical breakdown doesn't mean much since very few people were computer programmers at all back then. Programming was a different affair too. You have to
by thanatropism 10y ago
> Historical breakdown doesn't mean much since very few people were computer programmers at all back then.
Programming was a different affair too. You have to be much more detail-oriented to deal with punch cards and spaghetti goto code; this means fewer people get to be big-picture focused.
Going back a couple decades further, computers were huge halls where women did small calculations by hand; someone (Oppenheimer, Feynman or some such) did the big picture work and divvyed it up much like physicists now give Matlab or Fortran work to do.
- balsam 10y agoHey just saw your reply. Thanks! (This is great comment, too)