[gameprogrammer] [OT] Re: General Purpose Double Linked List Class

On Thursday 02 March 2006 20:22, Jake Briggs wrote:
[...]
> > Isn't Moore's law wonderful?
> >
> >             Bob Pendleton
> >   
> 
> Maybe this is against list etiquette but how old are you Bob?

Old enough to have seen and done lots of kewl stuff that most of us 
have only read or heard about. ;-)


Though it doesn't take long before you start to feel old in this 
feild! 21 years and counting, and I started having this feeling on a 
regular basis years ago. (Ok, I basically don't have a life, so 
that's pretty much 21 years of "compressed time". Looking at it that 
way, I start wondering what I've actually achieved with all this time 
and energy spent... Oh, well.)

The most striking thing is how totally different a background your 
average beginning programmer comes from these days. And, I'm having 
trouble getting my head around how your average programmer these days 
can get away with no experience of programming to the metal, no 
knowledge of asm, and a very limited understanding of integer and 
logic algebra. (Actually, they can't sometimes. They call for me when 
they need some trivial bit shuffling code figured out...) Those were 
the very fundamentals of programming in the environments I started 
out in.


And it still feels like yesterday, that I was hacking an object 
oriented GUI toolkit in pure 68k asm - and that was like 18 years 
ago. Why this weird (or rather, missing) sense of time when it comes 
to these things?


Ok, what has this got to do with anything!? Back to work! :-D


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