Likewise Toby.
When I started college in 1981 we only had basic and assembly language.
My first job after school was working on a Navy shipboard computer where everything was in assembly.
When IBM standardized the desktop, assembly was still there. It was Microsoft who first used "c" to write gui programs. Finally adding in C++ later.
I actually worked at IBM in 1987 on a midrange using assembly language.
I distinctly remember people saying things like 'we don't need 4th generation languages, we have assembly". Today we almost always use 4th generation languages and rarely, if ever use assembly.
So it's from that perspective that I find those that reject new features in their own language to be just like the 'we don't need it group'. They are stuck in their own self inflicted technical debt gap.
But what really surprises me are the so called experts in their domain shunning new features.
Elliott still to this day pans TypeScript which had features not introduced to Javascript until many years later. He is to me a 'we don't need it' person.
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Likewise Toby.
When I started college in 1981 we only had basic and assembly language.
My first job after school was working on a Navy shipboard computer where everything was in assembly.
When IBM standardized the desktop, assembly was still there. It was Microsoft who first used "c" to write gui programs. Finally adding in C++ later.
I actually worked at IBM in 1987 on a midrange using assembly language.
I distinctly remember people saying things like 'we don't need 4th generation languages, we have assembly". Today we almost always use 4th generation languages and rarely, if ever use assembly.
So it's from that perspective that I find those that reject new features in their own language to be just like the 'we don't need it group'. They are stuck in their own self inflicted technical debt gap.
But what really surprises me are the so called experts in their domain shunning new features.
Elliott still to this day pans TypeScript which had features not introduced to Javascript until many years later. He is to me a 'we don't need it' person.