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Re: Review rant

Author: Djudy
Date: 2021-01-06 14:10

Been there !
FWIW : I did all my stat classes entering data on a teletype machine (ker-CHUNK ker-CHUNK !) back in the early '70s and remember when the central computer for the whole university sat in a room that looked like a football field. Before I graduated that room was empty except for one small unit the size of a desk. I had the privilege to work on one of the 4 (count 'em !) first interactive terminals, which meant you could correct a type-o on the screen and not have to search for the card, type a new card with the whole command line over again, and resubmit the batch. We programmed everything ourselves for a decade, even after the arrival of the first pcs; it was nuts and bolts stuff but it worked. I wouldn't go back and today I'd prefer my phone to my pc if my thumbs weren't so big, but I often ask myself if today's programmers ever use their own software/apps. Lots of dumbing down and empty fluff there as well as poor construction. The day they eliminated printed user manuals for software was the beginning of the end IMHO, as no amount of hot links can anticipate the jumps and connections the human brain can generate and assimilate. After that users had no option other than to passively accept or abstain.

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