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		cperciva on June 12, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Old guys, what do you miss about developme... In the 1990s nobody thought I was crazy for writing CGI scripts in C. (I still do it, but now people think I'm crazy.)

gHosts on June 12, 2019 | [–]

Or writing amazing CGI scripts in perl that did amazing things before I realized I had to maintain aforementioned perl scripts.

Turned to shit pretty rapidly, but for a day or three I was wondrously happy.

chopdcheez212 on June 12, 2019 | [–]

You’re not crazy, they’re all crazy!

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