Almost 45 years. Started as a kid in the 1970s with an Apple 2 and some sort of timesharing system (MUSIC/SP?). Regret not getting a degree (it seemed like a s

Almost 45 years. Started as a kid in the 1970s with an Apple 2 and some sort of timesharing system (MUSIC/SP?). Regret not getting a degree (it seemed like a step backward at the time). I moved from systems programming to “web” programming which sort of became systems programming once we moved beyond simple CGIs. I don't particularly enjoy it any more, too much gatekeeping. Oh? You don't know the specialized name from 1997 for a common pattern that has been around since the 1960s? You must not really know how to “program”. I find we keep making the same mistakes over and over again. We have multi gigahertz systems that barely seem better than the megahertz systems a generation ago.