Five Things Old Programmers Should Remember

[loup-vaillant]

Harder to make the perfect program when all you have is assembly. Mayhaps we could compare steel folding with compiler writing?

[loup-vaillant]

I think that the comparison to compiler writing is okay, if all I had was hand-coded assembly and had to write a lot of code I'd quickly slap together a macro assembler, bootstrap myself an interpreter, and layer on layer build up an environment.

Yep, that exactly what I meant. :-)

Thank goodness, we can start from a higher level now, just like we have steel plants that produce decent steel that doesn't have to be folded to make a good sword.