Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2020 09:57:25 +0100 From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: terminology and history (was Re: Re updating BIOS) Message-ID: <20200216095725.2b3921e0@archlinux> In-Reply-To: <CAEJNuHyZfPriMGMa6K=5SN3jP5Wyp8J%2B86tR8E7ZPnzhxRAjJA@mail.gmail.com> References: <202002120724.01C7OcSW005991@sdf.org> <CAEJNuHwebNQjGTFWFaJGqnA3BVwxqVYM9Ufrr6i69iwVmTknBg@mail.gmail.com> <202002160656.01G6uBYm008146@sdf.org> <CAEJNuHyZfPriMGMa6K=5SN3jP5Wyp8J%2B86tR8E7ZPnzhxRAjJA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, 16 Feb 2020 08:42:23 +0000, Ottavio freebsd-questions wrote: >1) Define "computer programmer" in 2010 and in the 70/80s. Back then, >computer programmers were an elite that programmed mostly in low level >languages. They were a tiny minority in any field of society and they >probably were also in the ham community, who, at the time, were mostly >ex-military or analogue RF engineers. Actually a friend of mine was a radio operator for the Bundeswehr in the 80th. I was an anarchist who neither opt in the Bundeswehr or even opt in alternative services. He and I were indeed low level (Assembly language) programmers. I tested a few higher programming languages that time, but never felt comfortable with higher languages. I can't comment on the 70th, but between the middle or ends of the 80th and the beginning or middle of the 90th, I was a computer programmer myself and soldering stations were not that seldom part of an averaged household. "minority" yes, but not that "tiny".
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