Gregory's Server@lina There was no Google. We learned BASIC and Pascal from books. We were arguably more efficient coders than most of today's coders
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 @Lydie I 100% agree but that's how it is, the next generation is always going to build over the previous generation's work and in the process lose the sight of the big picture. This causes people to pile up technologies like legos to achieve simple things like driving a relay, but since what happens below the language they understand is a black box, we see stuff like something made with PHP to control a relay with all kinds of magic libraries and stuff. @Lydie This is why I advocate people learning to code to also look at how low level stuff works, even if it's just an Arduino making a LED blink, so they don't develop a mindset where they need a cloud service to drive the LED with a ready-made IoT mystery box. @apzpins indeed. I can fire up QuickBasic and control relays through the parallel port in just a few lines of code, with zero outside libraries, and it's a cakewalk. Today we have full blown enshittification, and a typical modern app coder would use hundreds of megs of bloatware to do the same |
@Lydie I'm always entertained to tell people that when I started with computers and programming, there was no Google. Nor the web. Not even Linux Howtos. Everything was painfully difficult and I do not wish it for future generations.