Yeah, I knew COBOL programmers who never saw a computer. I first coded in the machine room, PDP 11/70s, and VAXen. My first clue for poor I/O was listening to the RMO and RPO drives rattling.
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Yeah, I knew COBOL programmers who never saw a computer. I first coded in the machine room, PDP 11/70s, and VAXen. My first clue for poor I/O was listening to the RMO and RPO drives rattling.
What to they call machine language now? How about assembler? See? Most young coders have no clue. The best contemporary coders are those that know the libraries. Nobody codes from scratch anymore.
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