That was when I put aside Fortran and Pascal, and switched to Lisp, C and Perl. With some Visual Prolog also. That was the last time when I still did some UI programs. The editor was still emacs, nothing much changed.
Processes were easier, but I tried to stop people from editing as root on live machines, to have a test setup, to start using CVS (a big step forward from RCS), to start using i18n (multiple language support), and to start engaging in online communities and conferences. There was not much open source but the few known BBS boards and sources, GNU, Freeware and Shareware.
Design was waterfall, proper WBL as of now, compensation was worse, but I did work mostly as engineer and did SW programming only for the job.
Better? Better tools for sure. Tools and compilers are now free, and you have a huge free support system now.
Processes were easier, but I tried to stop people from editing as root on live machines, to have a test setup, to start using CVS (a big step forward from RCS), to start using i18n (multiple language support), and to start engaging in online communities and conferences. There was not much open source but the few known BBS boards and sources, GNU, Freeware and Shareware.
Design was waterfall, proper WBL as of now, compensation was worse, but I did work mostly as engineer and did SW programming only for the job.
Better? Better tools for sure. Tools and compilers are now free, and you have a huge free support system now.