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I have written tens of thousands of lines of BASIC code on everything from a UNIVAC 1108 to an Apple II and I am rather fond of the language. Over about the last 10 years I noticed that programming was getting less and less fun. I was spending all my time looking up objects in the documentation instead of writing code.
How true about looking up objects. Searching the documentation has become such a major part of programming. Now that you've mentioned it, it is striking just how much things have changed.
But then reusability was one of the big advantages of object-oriented programming that got everyone excited back when it was still exciting.
Reusability felt more exciting as a concept than it feels as a day-to-day reality.
