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Has nothing todo with a processor. It's all about what the cool stuff you _can_ do is. Minecraft, YouTube, Instagram, who needs BASIC? It's not about programmi
by Torwald 7y ago
Has nothing todo with a processor. It's all about what the cool stuff you _can_ do is. Minecraft, YouTube, Instagram, who needs BASIC?
It's not about programming, it's about doing cool stuff. In 8bit era that meant programming. Even if you wanted to do grafx or sound you ended up programming the box.
Nineteenseventies Unix or Plan9 are cool, you can program on them. The iPhone is cooler, you can do movies and stuff.
Here is another vector: compared to the software you could buy back then, the things you could do in your spare time programming were more oftne than not cooler or at least comparably cool. To make a better version of any on single app that comes preinstalled with your Mac is not something you just do.
So, why should anyone be interested in learning to program in the first place?
- foldingmoney 7y ago>Here is another vector: compared to the software you could buy back then, the things you could do in your spare time programming were more oftne than not cooler or at least comparably cool. To make a better version of any on single app that comes preinstalled with your Mac is not something you just do. IMO this is definitely the issue, rather than availability. If someone is too lazy to download some programming software then they're almost certainly too lazy to learn to program.