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But that's my point - the kind of constraints they had back then was not at all how we build software nowadays.

I remember people debating using global variables back then - I haven't seen a team not using unit testing in years. Scaling code up to multiple contributors, standardizing abstractions, building for automated testing, etc. We've taken many tradeoffs in the direction of development scalability and stability/correctness at the expense of performance and simplicity.

I still see people praising visual basic form builder - I think those were the kids that started doing dev with that and we're impressed they can put dialogs on a screen. I think it would be extremely hart to find someone who maintained a nontrivial app with that code behind shit and thought it was a good idea.