Ah, I almost had a knee-jerk response to remind you that the Turbo Vision IDE very much had copy and paste 30+ years ago – and then I understood what you meant.
One of my cousins learnt to program as a teenager in Argentina, before the web. He told me about the difficulty of finding programming information over there. Apparently, people who knew any kind of programming had paid dearly to get that knowledge and in turned charged others for that knowledge. Needless to say, there were not many programmers in the country at the time.
In comparison, today's generation has access to vast libraries of knowledge.
One of my cousins learnt to program as a teenager in Argentina, before the web. He told me about the difficulty of finding programming information over there. Apparently, people who knew any kind of programming had paid dearly to get that knowledge and in turned charged others for that knowledge. Needless to say, there were not many programmers in the country at the time.
In comparison, today's generation has access to vast libraries of knowledge.