My wife was a COBOL programmer before we had kids. Just last night, she was going off on how modern programs are not properly written. She was having all kinds of problems with an online program we have to use for something and how she wants to go work for these people and teach them the right way to do stuff.
I’m nothing but a tech user and have absolutely zero interest in how it’s done. My eyes glaze over when friends start talking about the latest gizmo or device.
She actually got mad at me because I wanted a 50 page document printed instead of just on the screen.
She actually got mad at me because I wanted a 50 page document printed instead of just on the screen.
It really isn’t like it was in the COBOL days. Back then, the programs were not tasked to do all that many things. If there was a single bug, it had to be fixed. The way it works nowadays is that you get the bugs to an acceptable level. It actually seems to work, but I think that is because the bugs are in “seldom used” user paths.
I can tell you I’ve found plenty of bugs in Word, Excel and PowerPoint. It’s quite irritating.
Computer screen is hard on the eyes! I wear a pair of the
“blue light filtering glasses” that help filter out the
color lights that strain the eyes. Got ‘em cheap on ebay.
I got trapped into having to use the word processor way
back when husband got his own home office & I did all his
paperwork. He sort of retired a few years ago; so I got
to retire, too. When he finally decided to learn to use
his computer and do e-mail; that worked out good for me.
I just got dragged into the computer age against my will.