01 May 2009
Old-school programming techniques you probably don't miss

Interesting walk down Memory Lane. I remember edlin, vi, PEEK and POKE. Punch cards were a bit before my time, but most of the rest of it, I remember. Frightening, really.

Despite its complexity, the software development process has gotten better over the years. "Mature" programmers remember how many things required manual intervention and hand-tuning back in the day. Today's software development tools automatically perform complex functions that programmers once had to write explicitly. And most developers are glad of it!

(link) [ComputerWorld]

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