The Biggest Difference Between Coding Today and When I Started in the 80’s

[doppp]

http://thecodist.com/article/the-biggest-difference-between-coding-today-and-when-i-started-in-the-80-s

[timonoko]

Yes. But in 80's you did not have memory constraints, because 64 kilo was plenty and 640 kilo was total excess for all ages. When you had only 256 bytes of memory, you had to invent the weirdest shit on your own, as there were no books for it.

[gregjor]

Exactly matches my experience. Started programming in 1975. Had to write code from Knuth's algorithms hundreds of times.