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by agoodthrowaway 2515 days ago
Maybe if you had the money to grow up with a computer and had people around to help you. I didn’t program until 1991 in Turbo Pascal. It was a terrible experience and somehow it was something you were supposed to already know. On the Vax or Unix machines in the lab, literally nobody was helpful. If you asked a question people would bark “read the man page.”