The pedagogical level and the production values both have the same source - this is an advertisement. The Jam Handy Organization made what we would now call sponsored content. It is unfair to compare the production values of this to modern educational content or modern amateur content - they're operating at different scales and with different resources.
In the past - as in now - media production is driven by the demands of capital.
We can wax nostalgic for commercials all we want but comparing it to a different modern product does a disservice to the past and media workers in the present.
A commit doesn't suffer from the same bit rot as a comment. Descriptions of how code changes doesn't shift as much as description of how code operates. If git blame, git log, and git diff are part of your workflow finding a git commit describing a piece of code is easy.
> I will never abandon (unless I'm doing Java, because... fuck Java outside of Eclipse or IntelliJ; and yes, I've tried using that one vim<->eclipse bridge, hell no)
If you're referring to eclim [0] FWIW I've found it to be an adequate way to have a vim centric workflow with a few excursions into eclipse. If you have proficiency with both tools and enjoy having an eclim server running in a eclipse window you'd get have access to the best features of both tools.
In the past - as in now - media production is driven by the demands of capital.
We can wax nostalgic for commercials all we want but comparing it to a different modern product does a disservice to the past and media workers in the present.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt45kdjb.16