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I work with older (in their 50s) engineers who still cobble together circa 1980 homebrew boards with two bits of memory and then write code in optimized assembly and complain about how poor kids today will never learn the really important aspects about designing a computer or writing a program because there is just too much memory in modern machines... Just like you, they assume that because the kids today do not need to walk 20 miles through the snow uphill each day, they won't learn anything. But that is rubbish. They will learn, and discover, and invent. They will just do it with a different tool set than you. And 40 years from now, they'll be complaining that the kids with their darn holodecks are being denied the chance to build character by learning how to manipulate regular expressions in PERL...
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