[Info-vax] openvms and xterm

[Dan Cross]

In article <v05mjt$ugqt$5 at dont-email.me>,
Simon Clubley  <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
>On 2024-04-21, Grant Taylor <gtaylor at tnetconsulting.net> wrote:
>> On 4/21/24 04:20, Andreas Eder wrote:
>>> I think the problem is that they grew up in a Windows dominated world, 
>>> not like us greybeards.
>>
>> I really would like to agree.  However we have some 20 year old 
>> developers that have been using Linux their entire life making these 
>> types of questionable decisions.
>>
>> I think it's more apt to say that they have grown up with frameworks 
>> that abstract things away from them and they have no idea how the 
>> underlying infrastructure works.
>
>I would hope that this generation of programmers still knows some of
>the basics and (for example) still knows what a device or CPU register is...

Some do, many do not.

In defense of the kids, there's a lot more computer science to
learn these days than there was $x$ many years ago, and the same
amount of time to teach it to them in a standard 4 year degree
course.  It's a balancing act fitting it all in.

That said, some of the greybeards have no idea (and I mean none
whatsoever) of how modern systems _actually_ work under the hood
themselves.  Those in glass houses....

	- Dan C.