You also owe it to yourself to learn the newer techniques.
The article is true and useful and contains many good pointers, but my god is it annoying when you either misunderstand the concept or take it too far. This kind of rot sets in when you refuse to use a tool or technique for no good reason.
Maybe this is a function of age or, more precisely, maturity level: Young people use bad tools to be 'hardcore', old people use bad tools because they stop learning new ones. Either way, the image I immediately dredge up when someone says 'old-school' in this context is someone writing a program using a machine code debugger instead of getting a decent text editor and development tools. Unless you can actually tell the difference in the resulting output, and I guarantee you almost certainly can't when it's assembler vs debugger, use the best (most likely, newest) tools you can get.
(The above doesn't apply to people doing things a certain way for fun. Heck, I run obsolete OSes on emulated hardware for fun. I just don't confuse that with reality.)
The article is true and useful and contains many good pointers, but my god is it annoying when you either misunderstand the concept or take it too far. This kind of rot sets in when you refuse to use a tool or technique for no good reason.
Maybe this is a function of age or, more precisely, maturity level: Young people use bad tools to be 'hardcore', old people use bad tools because they stop learning new ones. Either way, the image I immediately dredge up when someone says 'old-school' in this context is someone writing a program using a machine code debugger instead of getting a decent text editor and development tools. Unless you can actually tell the difference in the resulting output, and I guarantee you almost certainly can't when it's assembler vs debugger, use the best (most likely, newest) tools you can get.
(The above doesn't apply to people doing things a certain way for fun. Heck, I run obsolete OSes on emulated hardware for fun. I just don't confuse that with reality.)