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>the era of the Intel 80486 processor. All of us cared a hell of a lot about both algorithmic and data structure efficiency back then since computers were so fe
by jasode 7y ago
>the era of the Intel 80486 processor. All of us cared a hell of a lot about both algorithmic and data structure efficiency back then since computers were so feeble compared to today's systems;
In the ancient 1990s, A COBOL programmer writing "green screen" terminal apps to hit a database on an IBM 360 mainframe doesn't deploy to 80486 desktop pcs.
Even today, if you type "COBOL programmer" into monster.com to search for jobs, most of the results will be programming work for mainframe environments instead of targeting consumer computers like iOS/Android/Windows/macOS/etc.
- scarface74 7y agoIn the 90s, I wrote C and Fortran for DEC VAX and Stratus VOS mainframes. Even then our major concerns weren’t “algorithmic complexity” and being able to reverse a binary tree on the whiteboard.
- Nursie 7y agoYou don't need to reverse a binary tree on a whiteboard, but you should have some idea of the complexity of what you're writing, or you'll write crap. Even in a CRUD context.