Sorry, it's just bemusing thinking of 19-year-old college students bragging about being real men.
But this is the problem with our profession, it's baked in at a deep level that old == bad. So every new generation reinvents the wheel, worse than the last. The truth is all the big problems in software were solved in the 1970s, if only we would pay attention. The only actual progress in computing is that the hardware guys make everything faster.
But this is the problem with our profession, it's baked in at a deep level that old == bad. So every new generation reinvents the wheel, worse than the last. The truth is all the big problems in software were solved in the 1970s, if only we would pay attention. The only actual progress in computing is that the hardware guys make everything faster.