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Dead end tools and technologies you wished you hadn't bothered with
...my quagmire of greed....my cesspit of laziness and unfairness....all I am doing is sticking two fingers up at nurses, doctors and other hard working employed professionals...
Come on, that was a useful skill for a couple of decades (at least) if you knew where to go. It died out of most mainstream projects but hung on for years in high-performance niches... the same way they still use C in the core parts of trading systems, where every ms is worth big bucks when relaying information (or so the people who work on it say). PC-based games were still using some ASM quite recently, and probably still are since no mainstream compilers are good enough to generate good SIMD code (also used in signal processing and stuff).
There are quite a few things that are of no practical value to me now, but that I'm still glad I bothered with (e.g. 6502 Assembly Language, Forth, RISC OS, ARM Assembly Language).
Unfortunately the one technology I wish I'd never had to have any dealings with just refuses to die. I'm looking at you, Microsoft® Windows™
I am slightly annoyed that only a few months ago I chucked out a book on Symbian programming that I brought to develop for the Psion some years ago only to discover recently that the latest Nokia phones use Symbian.
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