On Fri, 17 Jun 2011 01:02:19 -0500, Mark van der Eynden wrote:

>On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 13:10:51 +0000, Bill Fairchild wrote:
>
>>A long time ago a friend of mine told me that the mental abilities to do
>computer programming, music, and foreign languages are probably linked
>genetically.  Since then I have noticed a lot of anecdotal evidence to support
>this theory, including myself.  But I have also found a lot of people who are
>strong in only one of those three possibly interrelated skills.
>
>Gee, I get what all you guys are saying.
>
>But I can't equate it with the fact that most musical people I know prefer
>Apple to Windows.
>
>'Nuf said.
>
Where is the disconnect?  With the advent of OS X, Mac has become an
excellent programmers' machine; highly compatible with Linux and with
z/OS Unix System Services (More so than Windows).  It's reported to
run Hercules; I've verified that it runs z390.  Etc.

-- gil

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