A bit off, but CPAN really hasn't changed all that much. I tried installing a module the other day, something simple like a word stemmer, and got so disgusted that I quit Perl.
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.
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A bit off, but CPAN really hasn't changed all that much. I tried installing a module the other day, something simple like a word stemmer, and got so disgusted that I quit Perl.
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.
I'm 45.
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.