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How is computer programming different than 20 years ago?
- cable2600 7y agoVSCode was late to the party. Atom and Notepad++ were before them. Don't forget eMacs or VI that were first in the text IDE modes for multiple languages. 20 years ago we didn't have Youtube or online courses to learn. Just websites and forums and Yahoo Clubs/Groups. As soon as Visual BASIC got a service pack the old books were obsolete and you had to read on MSDN or the forums or the Yahoo Clubs how to deal with the API changes and language changes. Which management never understood and confused MSDN with MSN.
- sedatk 7y agoYou’re right about text editors. I was mostly tongue-in-cheek in most of the claims :)
- daly 7y agoI've been programming for 50 years. Nothing fundamental has changed. Computers are "intellectual mirrors". What you get reflects what you think you want. Which is almost never what you actually want. Wrapping "tools" around the intellectual mirror is putting makeup on. It makes you look better but you're still the problem.