I started working part time while going to school in '85 (off by one year, here). I did use a reasonably high level language, dBASE, rather than C/Pascal (most

I started working part time while going to school in '85 (off by one year, here). I did use a reasonably high level language, dBASE, rather than C/Pascal (most of the time). Writing a CRUD app in dBASE/xBASE (Clipper, Fox) back then, vs using a low level language, felt like using Ruby on Rails does now (vs "Enterprise" make-work). Of course, in both cases, you sometimes run into performance/capacity issues that make you rethink what you did with the higher level platform :-) So, I guess I disagree that everything was done at or near the assembly language level back then.