All the programmers here that were programming for a really long time, tell us, the next generation of programmer, what programming was like back in 80`s and 90`s. What had changed since then (for example: "back in my days memory was really expensive, and we never wasted it! I wrote a FORTRAN compiler in Real Mode Flat Model, with only 64k of memory in Assembly!! Nowadays the memory is cheap and you cannot fit "Hello world!" on 64k!" or "Back in the days, we did not have 1's! We had to write a databae using only 0s!!".
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Jump to Postprogramming in the 70s,
loading an entire business accounting app in 32kb, to leave 32kb for data, ram is ExPeNsIvE
'Hello World' was 16bytes, production code with no included commenting, it just didnt fit
serial terminals, sharing a 9600bit data line
keeping a months work, on a cassette tape in …
Jump to PostI am not that much old programmer I started in 2002..... And when I started .net beta version launched, the old 8 CD pack..... and at that time floppy drives were taking their last breaths and there was no facebook and social networking was not the buzz word there we …
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What language should I learn?
I'v tried this-and-that but not sure where to stick :/
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