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Software was significantly simpler in those days. I don't find it strange that they took a simplified view of software engineering. Specifically because those e
by wavemode 3y ago
Software was significantly simpler in those days. I don't find it strange that they took a simplified view of software engineering. Specifically because those exact same simplified views still exist today - talk to people who've never worked on large complex systems, and you will usually encounter similar "anti-perfectionism".
People adopt simplified engineering practices when working on simple software by themselves, compared to when working on complex software within a large team.
- trimistermota 3y agoOne of the reasons C became popular because the compiler was actually reasonable to use on the hardware of the time.
- stjohnswarts 3y agoYeah it's hard for a lot of programmers to context switch back to when a megabyte a HUGE amount of memory (or even 640kB). I think everyone should play around on arduino uno or even smaller memory cpus to get some perspective. You didn't have gigabytes of rams to analyze all corner cases, data races, etc. during compilations.