How I coded in 1985
That headline got me to thinking...<p><pre><code>  Date:     Monday, April 29, 1985
  Age:      29
  Location: Santa Ana, California.
  Company:  electronics manufacturer
  setup:    dumb black & green 24x80 14" CRT terminal
  Hardware: Honeywell mini
  OS:       Honeywell proprietary
  DBMS:     Pick (Ultimate Flavor)
  Language: BASIC
  App:      Work Order Processing (I wrote from scratch.)

  Date:     Monday, April 29, 2013
  Age:      57
  Location: Miami, Florida
  Company:  aerospace manufacturer
  setup:    Windows PC, 19" & 32" flat screens monitors
  Hardware: who knows
  OS:       Unix
  DBMS:     Pick (Unidata flavor)
  Language: BASIC
  App:      Work Order Processing (I'm writing from scratch.)
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That's right, everything I wrote in 1985 would compile and run perfectly in the environment I'm connected to in my other session right now. And everything I'm writing today would have also worked on that mini-computer back then. I wonder how many other programmers could make the same claim.<p>I have learned and continue to use many other client/server and web-based technologies since then but somehow, I always come back to "old faithful".