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Discussion on: What are some things that only someone who has been programming 20-50 years would know?

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Muhammad Hasnain

Ooh WTF. Bruh, I'm 22. You have more experience in programming than I have in literally anything in my life.

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Shai Almog

So you're totally missing out on 68k assembler (that's the old chip on the Apple II device)... Seriously, experience is a lot but in our industry 85% of the stuff I have experience with is no longer applicable. I used to be an expert in CORBA, had a ton of books on OpenDoc. Hell, you'd probably need to Google them and SOM, OS/2 etc.
COBOL is still around but I don't want to touch that crap with a 10ft long pole.

Experience just means I'm old.

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Jon Randy 🎖️

I just bought a book on Z80 assembly language for the ZX Spectrum 😛

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Shai Almog

Loved that machine!