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> I think he sees peak software in the 80s, with often terminal interfaces and highly reliable systems; or with arcade machines and the like. Everybody think t
by mcphage 3y ago
> I think he sees peak software in the 80s, with often terminal interfaces and highly reliable systems; or with arcade machines and the like.
Everybody think their childhood was a golden age when everything was better… part of growing up is realizing that things just seemed better because you weren’t aware of the problems. Jonathan Blow was born in 1971, he wasn’t doing in-depth code quality reviews in the 80s.
- saltcured 3y agoI think he was at UC Berkeley at a time in the 90s and dropped out into industry when he would have been exposed to a rosy, elitist, R&D tilted view of programming. Where one might both hear myths and have social contact with some 70s-80s giants. This would be very different experience than someone bumping around in the equivalent of b2b/enterprise software of that era...
- pshirshov 3y agoWell, I have a vast collection of retro machines. In many aspects things were definitely better. First of all, everything was orders of magnitude simpler.
- ttfkam 3y agoI don't recall adults in 1980s considering the advent of arcade games to be "definitely better" or "orders of magnitude simpler." Every generation establishes a new baseline for "normal". Older generations always think they're wrong and complain about what has been lost, usually ignorant of many things gained along the way. You will find accounts in ancient Greek writings about the younger generation lacking. https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/28169/what-is-the-oldest-authentic-example-of-people-complaining-about-modern-times-an#45976 https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/28169/what-is-th...