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[D9u]

I resemble that remark... I'm also old.

I was writing RDBMS in dBase, compiled with Clipper, on MS-DOS, in the early 1990's, when I was about 30 years of age. (I was the "old guy" 20 years ago)

Wow! The decades just keep passing by with increasing relevant speed.

[cl8ton → D9u]

Clipper! yes that was the first language I used professionally.

I tell the younger guys that before IDE's and flat memory models were around, when you programmed, you went looking to buy three things.

1. Language/Compiler 2. Linker 3. Editor

And you will spend just as much time in the linker file (segmented memory back then) as you did coding.

The newer tools are just light years ahead of where they started back then. Its one area I will never look back at and wish it was still around.

[stan_rogers → D9u]

It is a well-documented fact that time passes as a percentage of life lived. There is far less relative distance between decades for me now than there was between my fourth and fifth birthdays. I have kids who have kids, and they weren't around for that last episode of MASH (left out the asterisks for formatting reasons) that I'm pretty sure (in what's left of my mind) was first aired a couple of years ago.

[btilly → stan_rogers]

A friend of mine told me this longer ago than I care to be reminded of. "The older you are, the faster time goes. The telescoping effect can be quite startling."