Have we really progressed or is all this just another shade of DOS
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I have been coding for 25 plus years and every time I open a "new and better" version of something I get this very sad feeling that we really have not progressed much. Recently setting up an ODBC connection (for the gazillionth time) and reading the MS help is like reading a latin translation of a Led Zeppelin song in Chinese’s. Other than Android is there ANYTHING NEW OUT THERE... Why cant my cell phone make coffee or something!! New technology..Big deal, it can send and receive text/verbal messages and tell me where I am. It's funny over 25 years to go from a little screen with green letter to a big screen with pictures and then back to a little screen with pictures and letter! I want a paradigm shift!
I agree 100% - this is my biggest gripe about technology... especially when indignant green horns call us old timer because we like things that are tried and true... that in short simply work. I think software has bloated significantly with little real benefit... except needing faster and faster machines to read email... Code might be an Art. Machine creation might be an art form. Taking an existing machine and making it do miracles with smart code? Artform! Starting over from scratch in every technology that comes out for software development? Crazy. Taking lean and mature programming languages and making existing machines scream? Priceless!
Know way too many languages... master of none!