I am constantly amazed by the productivity of top computing experts in the 60s and 70s. They managed to accomplish so much in such a short time, while working i

I am constantly amazed by the productivity of top computing experts in the 60s and 70s. They managed to accomplish so much in such a short time, while working in small teams, on ridiculously slow hardware and having next to no libraries or tooling. In the corporate world today it often takes a dozen people and a few years to create what's effectively a website that records user inputs to a database and occasionally sends emails. I understand that I'm comparing top programmers of the past to average programmers today, but I think modern tooling and accidental complexity of our computing environments plays a large part here as well.