Old-School Coding Techniques You May Not Miss

CWmike writes "Despite its complexity, the software development process has gotten better over the years. "Mature" programmers remember manual intervention and hand-tuning. Today's dev tools automatically perform complex functions that once had to be written explicitly. And most developers are glad of it. Yet, young whippersnappers may not even be aware that we old fogies had to do these things manually. Esther Schindler asked several longtime developers for their top old-school programming headaches and added many of her own to boot. Working with punch cards? Hungarian notation?"http://developers.slashdot.org/slash.../04/29/2226241
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