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> Mainframes were rented back in the day, you paid by resources consumed, terminal time was precious, and mainframes were often turned off outside business hours. Sounds very cloud
Cloud is return of the "computer centre" model of old, similarly billed by usage and with various level of vendors services provided.
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This is true. Back in the day, COBOL was marketed to businiess people as an easy to learn code to just get stuff done. Serious programming was done with FORTRAN.
Actually, FORTRAN was marketed to scientists, not for "serious programming" which was still done in assembler.
(gonna keep posting this on all the COBOL threads haha)
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As a healthcare worker who also has an interest in programming - why does this comment not surprise me in HN? If a worldwide pandemic doesn't make you reflect on problems in our societal structure - that our key workers are the most poorly paid, but part of a necessary backbone of any country, and that the most over-paid workers are often the least 'key' at times like this - then I guess nothing will. But sure, the s…
Quite. A proposal for yet more of the consumer-capitalist program of dehumanising via inculcation of greed which is devastating the globe. I entered tech because I was broke at the time. But it truly is an ethical wasteland, and I bitterly regret not having done something more hospitable to human fraternity.