trip down the memory lane: i coded apps (programs we called them, like a small joystick drawing tool or a little program that put out a boilerplate BASIC code) and games (rpg, asteroid like mini-shooter, ...) on the C64 (basically via &quot;forking&quot; and combining programms available in printed magazines) - but nobody &quot;grown up&quot; saw value in them. i was told not to waste that much time on the computer - and after the energy-supply-thingie went up into flames, i was sent back to watch TV...<p>gladly -as i found out in the first dotcom bubble - that not much has changed. ok, everything has changed, but &quot;writing programs&quot; was still &quot;writing programs&quot; and it wasn&#x27;t that much of a jump from BASIC to &quot;that stupid subset of PERL that the template engine of that long gone agency used&quot;.<p>we should bring back that &quot;printed code&quot; magazines. i mean really just a magazine where there is pure code and only a short discussion about it. not that patronizing how-to shit thats currently available.