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by tptacek 635 days ago
Curricula lags the industry by lots of years; in the early aughts concatenated SQL queries were the norm for database APIs, but prepared statements have been the default (or at least easily afforded in the default) for most APIs for a pretty long time now.
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Yup.

In the mid aughts, one of my lecturers insisted that motion capture was limited to a few minutes because "several megabytes" was "too much" to store.