13 Aug
2001
13 Aug
'01
8:15 p.m.
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.