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Programming is way more accessible than it's ever been.
by IdiocyInAction 6y ago
Programming is way more accessible than it's ever been.
- djaychela 6y agoI disagree. 80s home computers camev with an interpreted language built in, and you were 5 seconds from power on to writing code. In addition, everything was accessible easily via comprehensible commands, directly. I don't think that's the case today, and in addition the bar is immensely higher than it was in the past. Commercial games in the early 80s looked like the kind of things you programmed yourself, whereas I think any title my kids play now looks like a cgi movie, and is the product of hundreds or thousands of people.
- labbeth 6y agoRemembering me when I was retyping Basic listings from mid 80's magazines...