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lokar on July 30, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Big Tech Killed the Golden Age of Programming

I remember when people paid (a lot of) money for a good compiler / tooling setup.

bsoles on Aug 1, 2025 [–]

I was genuinely excited as a 16 year old, poor kid when I first bought my Borland Turbo C suite/compiler. That was my golden age of programming.

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