Then and Now: Modern Programming
For a long time, professional computer programming was a very select field; an occupation held by only a few who were often stigmatised by popular culture. Everyone knows the stereotype of the basement-dwelling programmer, staring vegetatively at the screen while a Matrix-esque river of code falls. Despite this, this was rarely (if ever) the case. Many a retro computer owner spent an hour or more inputting lines of primitive code into the first home computers,...