@brook The kids will be alright...

@brook@sunny.garden I'm 13 and I love C :)

@brook that young lady has a bright future ahead of her! 🥰

@brook oh dear

@brook the .NET Framework was 12y ago. Wonder if she picks c# or vb

@brook i can't think of a better email.

@brook I’m… I’m not crying. 🥹

@brook
"Would you like me to sit in a corner and rust away or just fall apart where I'm standing?"

@brook third of all.. stay offa muh grass!

@brook it's times like these where the phrase "I diminish and will go into the West" comes in handy

@brook adorable

@brook @baldur

Tell her about APL

@brook Time for me to make a list of programming languages 50+ years old.

@brook Before I was born there was Mercury Autocode ... and that's probably about it.

@brook Ah look, that's how we'll have experts for these old industry systems way into the future 🤪

@brook
LMAO

@brook I'm younger than B and older than C.

@brook I'll lend you some of my clouds... you're more than welcome to join me in yelling at them! ☁️ ☁️ ☁️ 🌤️ ☁️ ☁️ ☁️

@brook I once got a gig because I knew Macromedia Director. This was only a few years ago. Similarly, got a gig (many more years before) because I still knew how to navigate windows 3.1.

@brook I've come to accept that I am now working with people who were born after 9/11. What is harder to swallow is there are adults in the world who have never listened to Tubthumping on the radio.

@brook It may cheer you up that C++11 is in same category for her.

@brook
I got an email once from a kid in japan and he asked why did you write that function and not use the built-in?
Answer: they hadn't put it in the language yet!
I feel you friend :-)
Once in irc someone said 'oh, gemlog, he's old as dirt'...
We may complain about getting old, but hey! It beats the alternative doesn't it? ;-)
@clacke

@brook ha yes, at that age I loved learning new languages! Lacking internet access, I could just read the books on them in the library and dream. Although I did write my own crude FORTH and LISP systems, because those are easy to parse... Couldn't be bothered to implement a parser for anything with actual syntax 🤣

@brook

I had to go to @wikipedia to check to see if any programming languages from "way before I was born" (1970) are actually still in use 🙂 (answer: Yes, if you count FORTRAN in 1957)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_programming_languages

@brook ooh that must be the best feeling

@brook

you can come over and crumble to dust along next to me if you'd like

@brook
Yay but also wow, that's wrapping a compliment around a brick before you throw it at someone...

@brook 😅

@brook what! that is amazing!!! so cool to imagine a 12 year old girl writing win32 code :)

@brook @nixCraft that makes me want to install Borland C++ Builder 5 again, from the time when I started

@brook Mmm, I presume that most of us could do the same, just being picky about languages, I could use Fortran, Cobol, Lisp, APL and a few others. Not bad.

@brook that is wonderful.

@brook I'm still using an old application I wrote back in 1994 in C for Windows 3.1 API, now ported to WIN32 and WINE on Linux, compiled with mingw32.

I had to fix a few bugs in the mingw32 resource compiler.

@brook I learned Fortran as a teenager. The only good it ever gave me was during an argument with a 'community leader' of a gay nerds group where I was all 'while you were just discovering Pokémon, I was studying the architecture of Cray supercomputers and learning FORTRAN' but he didn't know what either of those things were so I didn't look as smart as I wanted to.

@brook One may crumble to dust progressively after their death, but their good acts, their legacy will remain, adopted by others. Through inheritance, we live on.
That is a beautiful act, albeit perhaps a tad... Aging, yes. :' )

@brook To be fair, there are few languages younger than twelve that get notable usage. Off the top of my head I can only think of Swift and Rust.

this toot is really resonating with people... if there's one thing the fedi can get behind it's Feeling Old.

@brook It's always funny when you suddenly get information that places someone you've been talking to at a higher life experience than you. I turned four in 1999 LOL

At least thanks to Microsoft's insane level of backwards compatibility she can still follow that tutorial written for Windows 98 on 10/11.

@brook I was okay with that at first, then I did the maths to realize she was born at around _2012_, and then it really hit me 😅

That said, I love that not only she's learning stuff like that, but also that she sent you an email and all that. This kind of stuff makes me hopeful for the future.

@brook So... what did she want? Was it a technical question or more just to say "hi"?

Like's old langs, huh? She'll adore COBOL and RPG3, then...

@brook Imagine how it makes those of us who had already learned and forgotten machine language, Fortran, COBOL, and Pascal by 1999 feel…..

@brook certified "I love internet" moment :yotsuba_pleased:

@brook I gave a Linux course in a high school few years back. I told the students about its history and mentioned DOS and Windows 95. And realized, that all of these students were born after the year 2000.

I felt old at that moment.

@brook @lisamelton I should talk to her about 65816 assembly used in the Apple IIGS and the Super Nintendo.

@brook that is so cool 😎