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I don't think that they appreciate the in-depth understanding of computers that many of their elders have because those elders wrote in assembly language (and debugged binary dumps), and then in low-level compiled languages, where we had to optimize compilers ourselves to get that precious speedup, or wrote our own compilers to port those languages to different computers, and were even able to alter code on the fly by using the front panel switches to insert instructions (in binary). Nor is it easy to understand that we used to have to work hard to get it right the first time because computer time was so precious. Today it's just compile-run-edit-compile-run-edit, which is more likely to result in sloppy, unreadable code (though we had our share of sloppy coders).
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I'm only in my mid-twenties, but I kindda agree.
The majority of the younger person outta here are not really that much computer literate.
Sure, they know how to use a mouse, but outside of youtube, MSN, Facebook, and downloading virus with limewire, they don't know much.
Using ebook is still not easy enough for most users. The Kinddle is probably the most consumer-friendly one (I suppose), but it's only available in the US.