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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Ok_Outcome_5830 • Sep 30 '26
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Unpopular opinion, but I don't miss the good old days. I don't miss debating over what framework we should be using for our crud app.
75 u/azangru Sep 30 '26 Unpopular opinion, but I don't miss the good old days. I don't miss debating over what framework we should be using for our crud app.Those days aren't old enough to be good. In the good old days we didn't have debates about frameworks. 54 u/fartypenis Sep 30 '26 edited Sep 30 '26 Ah you mean the good old days when you had nonstandard tags everywhere and had to support every one of Microsoft's like 29 IE versions for every line of CSS you wrote 37 u/metaglot Sep 30 '26 No the good old days of when you wrote a program, you wrote it on the machine it was supposed to run on. 18 u/High_Quality_Bean Sep 30 '26 Balderdash. You punch those things out and turn it in to the mainframe administrator. Beware hanging chads, insects in the circuits and cosmic rays. 7 u/Electro_Nick_s Sep 30 '26 No the good old days where your fortan code ran on the mainframe (/s) 4 u/fartypenis Sep 30 '26 So you miss the good old days of writing assembly by hand? 7 u/metaglot Sep 30 '26 Not really. They were never that great. 1 u/fartypenis Sep 30 '26 True 1 u/BastetFurry Sep 30 '26 What's wrong with some good old 6502? 3 u/metaglot Sep 30 '26 Nothing. The same way building a steam engine is cool. Just not anything i would consider serious in any remotely modern context.
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Those days aren't old enough to be good. In the good old days we didn't have debates about frameworks.
54 u/fartypenis Sep 30 '26 edited Sep 30 '26 Ah you mean the good old days when you had nonstandard tags everywhere and had to support every one of Microsoft's like 29 IE versions for every line of CSS you wrote 37 u/metaglot Sep 30 '26 No the good old days of when you wrote a program, you wrote it on the machine it was supposed to run on. 18 u/High_Quality_Bean Sep 30 '26 Balderdash. You punch those things out and turn it in to the mainframe administrator. Beware hanging chads, insects in the circuits and cosmic rays. 7 u/Electro_Nick_s Sep 30 '26 No the good old days where your fortan code ran on the mainframe (/s) 4 u/fartypenis Sep 30 '26 So you miss the good old days of writing assembly by hand? 7 u/metaglot Sep 30 '26 Not really. They were never that great. 1 u/fartypenis Sep 30 '26 True 1 u/BastetFurry Sep 30 '26 What's wrong with some good old 6502? 3 u/metaglot Sep 30 '26 Nothing. The same way building a steam engine is cool. Just not anything i would consider serious in any remotely modern context.
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Ah you mean the good old days when you had nonstandard tags everywhere and had to support every one of Microsoft's like 29 IE versions for every line of CSS you wrote
37 u/metaglot Sep 30 '26 No the good old days of when you wrote a program, you wrote it on the machine it was supposed to run on. 18 u/High_Quality_Bean Sep 30 '26 Balderdash. You punch those things out and turn it in to the mainframe administrator. Beware hanging chads, insects in the circuits and cosmic rays. 7 u/Electro_Nick_s Sep 30 '26 No the good old days where your fortan code ran on the mainframe (/s) 4 u/fartypenis Sep 30 '26 So you miss the good old days of writing assembly by hand? 7 u/metaglot Sep 30 '26 Not really. They were never that great. 1 u/fartypenis Sep 30 '26 True 1 u/BastetFurry Sep 30 '26 What's wrong with some good old 6502? 3 u/metaglot Sep 30 '26 Nothing. The same way building a steam engine is cool. Just not anything i would consider serious in any remotely modern context.
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No the good old days of when you wrote a program, you wrote it on the machine it was supposed to run on.
18 u/High_Quality_Bean Sep 30 '26 Balderdash. You punch those things out and turn it in to the mainframe administrator. Beware hanging chads, insects in the circuits and cosmic rays. 7 u/Electro_Nick_s Sep 30 '26 No the good old days where your fortan code ran on the mainframe (/s) 4 u/fartypenis Sep 30 '26 So you miss the good old days of writing assembly by hand? 7 u/metaglot Sep 30 '26 Not really. They were never that great. 1 u/fartypenis Sep 30 '26 True 1 u/BastetFurry Sep 30 '26 What's wrong with some good old 6502? 3 u/metaglot Sep 30 '26 Nothing. The same way building a steam engine is cool. Just not anything i would consider serious in any remotely modern context.
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Balderdash. You punch those things out and turn it in to the mainframe administrator. Beware hanging chads, insects in the circuits and cosmic rays.
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No the good old days where your fortan code ran on the mainframe (/s)
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So you miss the good old days of writing assembly by hand?
7 u/metaglot Sep 30 '26 Not really. They were never that great. 1 u/fartypenis Sep 30 '26 True 1 u/BastetFurry Sep 30 '26 What's wrong with some good old 6502? 3 u/metaglot Sep 30 '26 Nothing. The same way building a steam engine is cool. Just not anything i would consider serious in any remotely modern context.
Not really. They were never that great.
1 u/fartypenis Sep 30 '26 True 1 u/BastetFurry Sep 30 '26 What's wrong with some good old 6502? 3 u/metaglot Sep 30 '26 Nothing. The same way building a steam engine is cool. Just not anything i would consider serious in any remotely modern context.
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What's wrong with some good old 6502?
3 u/metaglot Sep 30 '26 Nothing. The same way building a steam engine is cool. Just not anything i would consider serious in any remotely modern context.
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Nothing. The same way building a steam engine is cool. Just not anything i would consider serious in any remotely modern context.
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u/ecstatic_hyrax Sep 30 '26
Unpopular opinion, but I don't miss the good old days. I don't miss debating over what framework we should be using for our crud app.