>Isn't this a slight over-generalization from web dev? If you learned programming in the pre-web era then you weren't able to learn how programs work by studyin

>Isn't this a slight over-generalization from web dev? If you learned programming in the pre-web era then you weren't able to learn how programs work by studying the shipped artifacts, but the craft wasn't waning, far from it. people understand the waxing and waning of the craft based on their experience. Someone can be an old greybeard now and have only done "web programming" starting at a young age· Perhaps I'm wrong but I have seen this argument multiple times so I believe it is nonetheless a belief about the waning of the craft prevalent among some people.