I've started from a series of opcodes and am building my way up to actual programs, and at each step of the way, I get these kind of "stop reinventing the wheel", or "isn't this a solved problem".

I feel like a lot of these people have somehow bought into the myth of progress, or think that we're somehow smarter than people of the past, or that we've ascended from the old problems.

We're both looking at each other like, you're the foolish one. Computer science is too young to calcify.

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@neauoire We aren't "smarter now"...

The car manuals in the 1950s contained instructions on how to disassemble the engine and change the piston rings.

The car manuals in the 21st century contains warnings to not drink the battery acid. There was a reason why it wasn't needed before...

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Yes.

Claim; "People bought into the myth that we are smarter now."
Response; I agree. It is a myth. We are not smarter.

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