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Has programming in 1969 changed much since 2019?

• commandlinefan 3y ago
  It sure has changed since 1969. Not a single mention of Story Points, or Sprint Retros, or Poker Planning or T-Shirt Sizing. Poor saps, stuck spending all their time doing programming instead of planning and ceremony.
  • bluGill 3y ago
    No mention of all the long complex design documentation before you did anything either. All those things you mention are individually more valuable than the formal design documents I used to have to write before doing programming. Note that my team gave up on "Story Points, or Sprint Retros, or Poker Planning or T-Shirt Sizing" years ago. I still do estimates at times, but they are in days since that is really what everyone wants anyway. Likewise I still do design documentation but only the amount that is needed, and the design is very different from those formal documents we used to have.
  • hinkley 3y ago
    GP means has our understanding and perspective of how programming was done in 1969 changed in the last half decade, or do we pretty much believe the same things about it. Vindication for Alan Turing and the computational analysis done for the Apollo Program have certainly reached a wider audience in the last ten years. They have certainly changed substantially since 2000 for the general public.
• goatlover 3y ago
  Alan Kay probably doesn't think so since C-inspired languages and their offshoots remain popular. Or the predominance of text editors and files.
• hinkley 3y ago
  It has if you worked for NASA...