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Yes, not nearly the quality of tools. When I was programming back then I programmed much closer to the cpu (less abstraction through libraries and less automate
by matt_the_bass 8y ago
Yes, not nearly the quality of tools. When I was programming back then I programmed much closer to the cpu (less abstraction through libraries and less automated tools). This made me look much closer at the issues listed above. I also ready full books on the programming language and command sets. Unlike now, if I use a new library/language, I just scan the online docs to get the gist of what I need to do.
So I guess I had the opposite experience.
- fcbrooklyn 8y agoYeah, I did all those things as well. They were essential. And yet I would say that at least 50% of the bugs we ran into were either buffer overflows, stack overflows, using freed pointers, not freeing pointers, or incorrect pointer indirection. At least we didn't have to worry about race conditions.