[jesstaa]

> You kids have no idea how easy you have it.

Sure, but the needle has moved. The thing that took you two weeks to write in 1987 isn't even considered anything useful by today's standards. The parsing needs to happen in real time, it needs to provide machine learning assisted auto complete, it needs a web UI and UI needs to show you an animated graphic of the scene you're describing, etc.

[secondaryacct]

They had it easy being paid to sum a few numbers and call it a banking application :D