The current Software Programming Model has changed compared to 10-15 years ago. Here is what has changed as per me:
1) Previously books used to be referred often. Now a quick online search is enough to throw up sample code and documentation.
2) Previously lot of software used to be built in house. Now open source rules. There is a open source software for almost everywhere out there. And they play nicely with each other too.
3) When encountered with obstacles, hours used to be spent debugging. Now answers to similar problems can be found on stackoverflow.com and other such websites.
4) Software used to crash often earlier. Now the crashes have reduced dramatically.
5) Build processes have now become automatic with builds triggering automatically on check-ins and basic tests being fired automatically.
What other changes have you noticed in the software programming model as compared to a decade ago?
Agree. Thank you stackoverflow.com :-).
Completely Agree !