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I have noted that often this is the way young recent grads act. In fact they feel they do not need to know what is going on because they have no real penalty for just using what is out there.

We see that the best apps programers were around it the days when there was a penalty for using these tools because there was not 4Gb of memory at 4Ghz processing to just waste.

If you want to really freak one out show him an old C64 or TRS80 program and ask him to replicate it in less than 64Kb.

Most can not do it

In reply to Re^3: Perlmonks are "old school"? by WBF3
in thread Perlmonks are "old school"? by SilasTheMonk

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