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I wouldn't say it repeats it. These new programs are similar to the old ones in much the same way that new books are similar to old books. The medium is the sam
by CGamesPlay 6y ago
I wouldn't say it repeats it. These new programs are similar to the old ones in much the same way that new books are similar to old books. The medium is the same but what's being expressed and accomplished is vastly different. Two specific categories that come to mind: these new programs are vastly easier to use with modern UI principles than "RTFM" you'd find in the old ones; and validation/error handling is similarly much simpler.
It's reinventing the wheel, but a car tire is a welcome improvement to a wooden wagon wheel.
- aduitsis 6y agoYour point is very well taken, but using Turbo Pascal to create an application with a TUI was surprisingly easy back in the day. You could just add some small boilerplate and you basically had something with a TUI running. So the entry barrier was extremely low, which had the effect of giving you a quick reward to motivate you to understand and build more advanced features.
- fmakunbound 6y agoWhat tools are the car tire in this analogy? I recall it was ridiculously easy to develop rich text applications from Turbo Pascal/Turbo Vision. I believe there’s a modern port of Turbo Vision as well