&gt; If the early 80&#x27;s was good, then something else must be bad.<p>If programming from one era was good, why do you think that means programming from another era &quot;must be bad&quot;? Why can&#x27;t good programming exist in both eras?<p>&gt; But a reasonable guess is good compared to today<p>If you insist on guessing there&#x27;s more to my final sentence, why isn&#x27;t a reasonable guess, &quot;as well as non-amazing programming back then&quot; or &quot;just as there is amazing programming today&quot;?