Re^2: Perlmonks are "old school"?

...and by extension, you know what goes on under the hood i.e. maybe he defines new school as not requiring such knowledge since it's all abstracted away by the tools ??

Consider your car running out of petrol/gas...

New school - change car
Old school - fill up

Just my pen'orth

A user level that continues to overstate my experience :-))

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Re^3: Perlmonks are "old school"? by WBF3 (Initiate) on Aug 13, 2009 at 19:41 UTC
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	[reply]

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Re^3: Perlmonks are "old school"?
by WBF3 (Initiate) on Aug 13, 2009 at 19:41 UTC

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

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