[Vivtek]

Try writing it from scratch, whippersnapper. In C.

I guarantee you'll end up having to write a damn string library and garbage collection - and you'll get it wrong.

[pork]

I'm 45.

[Vivtek]

Which explains your dismay at using new stuff. I'm 45, too. Fight it.

My point - which, as a 45-year-old programmer, you should have understood - was that modern languages and library repositories make a whole lot of basic work go away, so that we're working at a higher level than was possible in 1985.