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A Snapshot In Time
When I entered college in the Fall of 1979:
1) Comp Sci 101 was taught in Pascal on punch cards.
2) The C Language was 7 years old.
3) Fortran was used for scientific programming more than C
4) SQL was 5 years old.
5) Oracle shipped its first relational database that year.
6) C++ was 6 in the future.
7) Objective-C was 7 years in the future.
The professor teaching us about relational databases had clearly never used one.
There were language reference manuals, but there was little help besides colleagues. I think of all the tools we have now and how much more productive we are as developers. I find it amazing.
#technology
When I entered college in the Fall of 1979:
1) Comp Sci 101 was taught in Pascal on punch cards.
2) The C Language was 7 years old.
3) Fortran was used for scientific programming more than C
4) SQL was 5 years old.
5) Oracle shipped its first relational database that year.
6) C++ was 6 in the future.
7) Objective-C was 7 years in the future.
The professor teaching us about relational databases had clearly never used one.
There were language reference manuals, but there was little help besides colleagues. I think of all the tools we have now and how much more productive we are as developers. I find it amazing.
#technology
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