In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Timothy Swenson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
On Fri, 7 Oct 2005 20:49:37 +0100, Malcolm Cadman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Do modern computer users do any programming any more ?
Or is it all web pages, video clips and MP3 downloads ... ?
Given that the computer has pretty much become an appliance (sold along
side TV, Washers, etc), I'm sure most computer users treat it that way.
The same way that most of us treat our cars, ie. just a way to get
around. I'm sure the early horseless carraige hobbyists were not too
happy when the car gained mass appeal.
Indeed ... the way of the world.
The power computers that we have now we the 'stuff of dreams' when the
QL was launched. And they have become just another domestic appliance
... :-)
Marvin, the paranoid android said something like ... a brain the size of
planet and all they ask me to do is to park cars .....
I'm sure that those that want to program, do. And those that don't, don't.
Well, at least that is where the QL at 21 is still OK ... it is still
fun to program, and people even know how.
--
Malcolm Cadman
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