On Fri, 2013-05-31 at 07:19 -0400, John Alexander Stewart wrote: > Gene; > > Not no, but hell no Andrew. I saw my first micro cpu, an RCA 1802, in the > > spring of '80 when I was 46. ... > > > > You are a veritable spring chicken at 30. If you have the time to study, > > the "need to know how" is a very strong incentive. > > > > Mine was also the 1802, (maybe a year or two before you, not that it > matters) but I was in my teens... all wire wrapped, debugged using only an > old analogue voltmeter. > > Yes, anyone can learn to program at any age - the incentive is the key to > anything you want to do. Certainly kids learn faster, but us older farts > learn better. > > John A. Stewart > http://cnc-for-model-engineers.blogspot.com
Hi John, Yes, one can learn to program at any age. It helps to have a practical reason for doing it unless one just needs the mental discipline. ;-) Over the years I've programmed in FOCAL( a DEC ALGOL based language), BASIC (Ugh!), FORTRAN, Pascal, COBOL, and C. The time span was approx 1970 to 1993 (retirement age). I've also hit a brick wall at times. Perl just didn't make sense and I wish I knew more about Python. So much to learn and so little time and energy. These days I pretty much use C to write G code. Dave > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Get 100% visibility into Java/.NET code with AppDynamics Lite > It's a free troubleshooting tool designed for production > Get down to code-level detail for bottlenecks, with <2% overhead. > Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_ap2 > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get 100% visibility into Java/.NET code with AppDynamics Lite It's a free troubleshooting tool designed for production Get down to code-level detail for bottlenecks, with <2% overhead. Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_ap2 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
