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Chris Sells: I've been programming for 22 years, and have seen remarkable changes in one key area: productivity. Comparing the tools, libraries, runtimes, and development environments that were available when I started, to those available now, is like night and day. The sheer amount of functionality and robustness in today's applications (as compared to the number of lines of code you have to write yourself) has to be several orders of magnitude different.
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