I guess I’m getting old
It looks like I’m old in the computer world 
After being a developer for ~15 years I can look back fondly at the “old school techniques we certainly don’t miss“. I do fondly look back at some of the things talked about but it’s true, I don’t miss it. Frankly I’m glad that with the exception of some applications I don’t really have to think about the Big O of my sorting/search algorithm or have to write finicky TSRs in Pascal (that would frequently reboot or cause you to reboot your system). I am surprised that linked lists with unprotected memory didn’t make the list. If you think writing TSRs would reboot your system a lot you’ve never tried allocating your own pointers in an OS with memory that was just right for the clobbering. Yes, I do realize this is just a form of me telling you about “tying onions to one’s belt because it was the style of the time” but that’s a story for another day.
Be sure to thank your programming forefathers for their sacrifices so you have things like virtual memory, protected memory, OS based threads, dynamic arrays and making geek… sheek.
Posted by Andrew Riley on Jun. 12, 2009
Comments
It’s is.gd not tiny url. Normally I wouldn’t post a link like that but Expression Engine doesn’t like having ? in an a href so it’s a necessary evil.
P.S. is.gd doesn’t remove their links http://is.gd/tech.php
Posted by Andrew Riley on 06/15/2009 10:29 PM
Ah, I didn’t know is.gd was permanent. No worries then 
Posted by Albert on 06/16/2009 02:20 PM
You might want to make that link a hard link and not a tinyurl… seeing as how tinyurl links are not permanent.
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9132061
Posted by Albert on 06/15/2009 07:50 AM