Naruto-kun
Charter Member
LOLOL !!! There you go. What's in a 'name' anyway.
The 14-year old 'coders' of today are certainly NOT on par with the 40-year old coders (aka programmers) of 40 years ago....... when I was learning Assembler, Cobol, PL/1 and later on Pascal and C. Back then the CODERS were the better people, even though system designers were higher up the corporate ladder.
I tend to focus on what people actualle are ABLE to, indifferent of what they are called or call themselves.
You couldnt have said it better. Back then there was none of this .NET managed nonsense and if you failed to handle a pointer properly you would get hit hard. There wasnt any room for bugs then. NB i speak from hearsay here...I was born too late to be part of that era. But having some teachers from that era has been a boon to my experience.