> From: Davd Brin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Yes, thank you for using the word "seems" so well to > display your handicaps at perception. I will now > continue using pencil and paper, and segue (as > planned) into coding. And while ciriticism is the > only known antidote to error, yours (having received > more heed from me than it deserved) has been > spectacularly dumb.
I'm not the one going around claiming how much better it was in day...when B.Gates S.Jobs were able to do things that now D.Brin and all new would be B.Gates's, can't because they've conspired to take away BASIC compilers from all new operating systems...And older Basic Interpreters from back in the day work more intuitively and new technology and newer BASIC interpreters have succumbed to techie disease making them unusable for people with perceptual blinders, or people too lazy to spend ten minutes figuring out how to use them, yadda, yadda, yadda...
It's a "things were bettere ine ye olde golde' age" argument, plain and simple. Perhaps other people, like D.Brin, also have 'Handicaps at perception'?
An ironic comment indeed from the very person who originally titled this and many previous threads "Fight the Future" . . .
-- Ronn! :)
"If a burglar is someone guilty of burglary, if a glutton is someone guilty of gluttony ... then God is an iron."
-- Spider Robinson (1948 - ), Canadian science fiction writer.
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