should be shocking only to the recent generation of coders who have become "code hipsters." The guys looking for the Next Big Thing™ in programming languages.

should be shocking only to the recent generation of coders who have become "code hipsters." The guys looking for the Next Big Thing™ in programming languages. This was written in 1983: http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/real.programmers.html http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/real.programmers.html It contains among other things the sentiment "Unix is a glorified video game." Most of the things you are using right now used to be hipster.