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Kids these days do a lot of disgusting things. They don't know how to write their own linker scripts, read assembly, or code in a real man's language (C). They
by ilovecaching 8y ago
Kids these days do a lot of disgusting things. They don't know how to write their own linker scripts, read assembly, or code in a real man's language (C). They think dynamic typing is "fun" and "productive". They don't even know how to manage threads or memory and use entire megabytes of RAM to send messages to each other using an inferior version of irc. Primarily they constantly waste precious cycles, eat quiche, and spend the rest of their time trying to solve the trivial problem of generating and consuming html in as many ways as possible. They don't even know who Ken is.
- Bud 8y agos/quiche/avocado\ toast
- 6ue7nNMEEbHcM 8y agocan't even terminate s command.
- willbw 8y agoTry it in vim, it works! It's an escape char for the space ;)
- DarkWiiPlayer 8y agoVim is for \(avocado toast | quiche\) eaters. It's bloated. Real programmers use ed.
- tempodox 8y agoExactly. ed(1) is the standard text editor: https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html
- cryptonector 8y agoTECO users look down upon you with scorn and contempt.
- fastball 8y agoIRC wasn't a great experience for a lot of things back in the day unless you setup your own bouncer/relay.
- z3phyr 8y agoReal programmers set up their own bouncer relays
- Asooka 8y agoOh please, actual Real Programmers, just picked up the phone and whistled at 9.6kb/s.
- rurban 8y agoMost old POTS phone switches still had the older pulse interface, so you dialed by hitting the hangup button really fast. The new fancy frequency encoding from 300-3300Hz was faster but not proper hacking anymore, you needed extra HW for this. Doable, but generating pulses was much easier.
- saagarjha 8y agoI figured I'd check: is "Ken" Ken Thompson?
- tzmudzin 8y agoPresumably, though I bet Mel would be an even better figure here: http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html
- siberianbear 8y agoThis reminds me of the famous quote by Socrates: “The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.”
- palad1n 8y agoSorry. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/01/misbehave/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/01/misbehave/
- dTal 8y agoYou should clarify in the text of your comment that the quote is apocryphal, as not everyone will click your link.
- jhbadger 8y agoBut a similar quote about the young is completely real -- just not by Socrates (who after all wrote nothing), but rather by Aristotle -- Book II, Part 12 of his "Rhetoric" has him complaining about young people -- it's a long passage, but some gems "They have exalted notions, because they have not yet been humbled by life or learnt its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things-and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning."
- aclsid 8y agoAs a counterpoint I would say that the old people that in that high level language called C, (real men use Punch cards ;) ), had no clue about user interfaces, developer productivity, used waterfall models for planning, and in general, creating something that was somewhat horizontal and useful ended up being a titanic task, and also with crazy price tags. Wait let me write that client/server software again using CORBA :(.
- tempodox 8y agoPlanning is for imbeciles who are unable to fly by the seat of their pants.
- C1sc0cat 8y agocough FORTAN cough Real languages have arrays