I don't see anyone lamenting the generation who single-handedly built games in machine code for the early home computers. No art was lost, we just evolved and started using more advanced languages that didn't require as much dedication to work in.
I don't see anyone lamenting the generation who single-handedly built games in machine code for the early home computers. No art was lost, we just evolved and started using more advanced languages that didn't require as much dedication to work in.
Yeah. The guy who carefully arranged assembly instructions to match the memory magnetic drum movement latency perfectly so that when one instruction finished executing the drum was exactly over the next instruction to be read and executed.
Those guys? Masters. Their craft? Reinvented, rearranged, some parts of it abstracted away by a more intelligent machine.
Current masters don’t know about memory drums and their read latency, nor about assembly instruction set execution time, but they are still crafting interaction between machines and the physical world.
So the next generation will be master of what? Which skills will they possess?