This thread on Hacker News terrifies me

[Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa)]

On 09/01/2018 01:51 AM, rikki cattermole wrote:
> 
> But in saying that, we had third year students starting out not 
> understanding how cli arguments work so...
> 

How I wish that sort of thing surprised me ;)

As part of the generation that grew up with BASIC on 80's home 
computers, part of my spare time in high school involved some PalmOS 
development (man I miss PalmOS). Wasn't exactly anything special - you 
pony up a little $ for Watcom (or was it Borland?), open the IDE, follow 
the docs, do everything you normally do. Read a book. Yawn. After that, 
in college, had a job working on Palm and WAP websites (anyone remember 
those? Bonus points if you remember the Palm version - without WiFi or 
telephony it was an interesting semi-mobile experience).

Imagine my shock another year after that when I saw the college I was 
attending bragging how their computer science *graduate* students...with 
the help and guidance of a professor...had gotten a hello world "running 
on an actual Palm Pilot!" Wow! Can your grad students also tie their own 
shoes and wipe their own noses with nothing more than their own wits and 
somebody else to help them do it??? Because, gee golly, that would be 
one swell accomplishment! Wow! Hold your hat, Mr. Dean, because Ivy 
League, here you come!!