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

>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...) 

That's why in my country mathematicians -like myself- are taking jobs as 
programmers, and they are well paid, even better, than regular programmers, 
since they seem to have a larger background...

>Those were 
>the very fundamentals of programming in the environments I started 
>out in.
>

I think that everyone should learn all that stuff you mentioned early. I had to 
grab a book of assembler, and learn it by my own, just to try to achieve the 
background... and it is hard when there actually is no point nowadays on 
learning such stuff, beyond the background and saying to collegues: "ah, I know 
assemly language for x86..."

>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?

"Those were the days my friend, we thought they'd never end..."

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

In the end, you didn't told us your age :P

Regards,
Fernando


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