SemiOT: Mourning for Classic Computing (Was: RE: PeeCee turns 20) [longish]

From: Mike Ford <mikeford_at_socal.rr.com>
Date: Mon Aug 13 20:15:36 2001

>The beginning of the end. I knew it then, and I was
>proved right. Again, it's nice to have fast, cheap
>computers, but I for one would have been just as
>happy for the next 20 years having fast, cheap TERMINALS
>to hook to the mainframes. And the continued high cost of
>entry would have kept from coming into existence an entire
>generation of self-taught (and poorly so) programmers who
>have and continue to crank out some of the worst software
>imaginable. In the halcyon days, most of the bad code was
>writtwn by the lusers themselves...
>
>Easy access to fast, cheap computers drove the genesis of
>an entire generation of self-taught programmers who didn't
>give a whit for structured programming or anything else that

Simple solution, software people should unionize.

BTW I see the era of the Apple II as the last of bug free code in
commercial products.
Received on Mon Aug 13 2001 - 20:15:36 BST

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