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		oblio on May 19, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Virtual DOM is pure overhead (2018) And, to add to this (I'm not being snarky), he could be the father/grandfather of many HNers. I recall one of his comments about how he was doing stuff on computers in 1965. We need more old coders around!

DonHopkins on May 20, 2019 | [–]

Thanks, but my age was negative in 1965! (But not very.) Maybe I was taking credit for somebody else's work and forgot to get my story straight. ;)

Old coders never die, they just get frozen until their favorite programming languages come back into fashion.

https://medium.com/@donhopkins/cobol-forever-1a49f7d28a39

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