Re: 6502 Programming Is Not Interested?

[Charles Richmond <richmond@ev1.net>]

desiv wrote:
> 
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> Of course, there were bad programmers "back-in-the-day", but there's a much
> higher percentage now.  Why?  It's easier to be a bad programmer now.
> Better tools, excess RAM and drive space.  It's very easy in todays world to
> write bad sloppy bloated code and get away with it...
> 
I agree that there are bad programmers *now*...and I agree that
there were bad programmers *then*. I have seen some awful COBOL
code..."back in the day" it was easier to get away with sloppy
programming because *no* one but the programmers understood what
the computer did.

But IMHO, now and then, one reason for *bad* programmers is that
so many people got into programming because they heard that they
could make a *lot* of money by working as a programmer. I think
these folks account for at least 80% of the bad programmers.

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