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Well, not knowing about this in the 90s was reasonable. Not knowing about it today is a failure somewhere in our education system/society/whatever.

• Dalewyn 3y ago
  I argue it's a failure to continue teaching something that humans do not and will not understand, and arguably also do not want in the first place. Computers for most people are just another household appliance or tool of their trade. They use computers to achieve certain tasks and they don't have time nor interest to figure out the details of how. They want the results, not the process. Abstraction of the file system is a step in the right direction, even if it rustles the jimmies of nerds and beards everywhere.
  • guender 3y ago
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• bdcravens 3y ago
  Stacks have grown easier, but larger. The size of the labor pool is larger, and there are more abstractions. There was a time when programmers were all physicists, but I think it'd be silly to measure the talent of developers from the 90s by that standard. Ditto for measuring full stack developers by standard from a time when you needed nothing more than C and shell access to a cgi-bin folder.