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by FanaHOVA 3253 days ago
> Other than the cloud and more computing and network power I don't think software development has really moved forward much.

So a person from the 70s who was instantly transported to today would feel like the only difference is that instead of having our own servers we ship things to Heroku? Please...

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Have you seen the Alto demos? Quake would be new to them, maybe the browser. As for shipping to Heroku IBM was renting mainframe timeshares in the 1960's.
I think they could get up to speed pretty quickly, yes. The ideas were all there.