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As a relatively new (5 or so years experience) programmer, 1985 sounds like hell.
by verandaguy 14y ago
As a relatively new (5 or so years experience) programmer, 1985 sounds like hell.
- rayiner 14y agoSoftware development basically peaked in the mid 1980's. Macintosh Common Lisp circa 1987: http://basalgangster.macgui.com/RetroMacComputing/The_Long_View/Entries/2013/2/17_Macintosh_Common_Lisp.html http://basalgangster.macgui.com/RetroMacComputing/The_Long_V..., specifically: http://basalgangster.macgui.com/RetroMacComputing/The_Long_View/Entries/2013/2/17_Macintosh_Common_Lisp_files/inspect%20and%20describe.jpg http://basalgangster.macgui.com/RetroMacComputing/The_Long_V... Firebug circa 2013: http://getfirebug.com/logging http://getfirebug.com/logging, specifically http://getfirebug.com/img/logging/consoleDir.png http://getfirebug.com/img/logging/consoleDir.png
- pjmlp 14y agoSometimes I wonder how software would be today if Smalltalk or Lisp environments had become mainstream. Oh well.
- svachalek 14y agoIn the 70s and 80s programmers were working on fixing the problems that programmers faced in the 70s and 80s: memory management, GOTO spaghetti, efficient assembly etc. In response we got heaps, garbage collectors, functional languages, virtual machines, compilers, debuggers, IDEs. Now most programmers spend most of their time dealing with problems of persistence, networking, parallelism, security, and massive codebases. In response we are creating scripting languages with slightly different syntax, adding closures to Java, and arguing about vim vs emacs. We're so obsessed with solving the problems of the 80s, my way, that we've just gotten trapped there.