Today, chatting with my dad, I realized that programming has always been pretty much the same; they've just changed the tools and the speed.
An idea that keeps repeating
That reminds me of Daft Punk's Infinite Repeating video...
I guess because I recently fell into a video about how they evolved. This one, for example:
But well, that's another topic; if I find it, I'll leave it here.
What my dad passed on to me
My father was talking about his course in technology, going between Japanese and Korean companies, where he had to program a certain machine to follow a sequence. Here's a clip:
Beyond the process he managed to describe to us while we were having dinner, I realized how that part of programming and finding a way to make it work is something that was passed on to me a long time ago.
And that the modern software industry, in a way, made it seem like that curiosity after accepting the task of a problem fades away, as if it had erased it from me. But part of it was me choosing in that environment.
I didn't have to choose anything; when everything seems like a minefield, I had to wait for someone to pull me up or throw a rope or something... but well, let's not blame 24-year-old Chris for his actions. He experienced the world as he could, even though he had inherited that curiosity to learn how things are done to solve a problem.
When he was little things seemed simple, and right now it seems the same in his new work: only now they're a bit tighter. But little by little, space is opening up.