Vibe Coding in the 90s

Summary

Hey folks. You know how programming is hard in 1994. You need books, help files, manuals, references to learn about a certain feature. You read all those. Then you go through endless iteration of trial and errors to find out how to accomplish a certain task.Well, I found a revolutionary way to write code. You see I got this CD-ROM from a friend. It's full of public domain sample code for every kind of application you could write.You want to write a file manager like Norton Commander? Well, just browse to the fileman\ofm\nc folder in the CD. Copy all the files to your local disk. And you're done! You have a full-blown, working file manager code.There are thousands of ready to run projects like these. All you need to do is to imagine what you want to create, and it's just a few clicks to get the project you want. CAD, drawing, accounting, games, you name it, and your project is ready in seconds.You can even use individual components under lib folder and include them to implement new features. There are libraries for everything from parsing GIF files to playing MIDI on Sound Blaster Pro. Everything you can imagine.That's very exciting! I think we're reaching to the end of programming because as the number of these libraries and projects grow, our need to write code will eventually disappear. All we need to do is to find the template, put needed libraries on top of it. That's going to be it. We won't be needing programmers anymore.I mean, maintenance is still a chore, but the big part of the work will already be done when you start. So, it's only the small part of adding several lines here and there and that's it. Obviously, to change something in the project, we first need to understand how it works and how it's designed, but that's easy too. You see there's a file in the root of every project called PROMPT.TXT that explains the project from a 10,000 feet. Then there's SPEC.TXT that we can read to understand how everything is architectured. There is also an INDEX.TXT t...