I am the very model of a modern garbage collector. Interesting wiki Seymour. I did write some programs on the Apple II in Basic and remember those huge pauses. We did a lot of memory string sorting to get ordered data from the primitive floppy disks. We thought it was our assembler bubble sort that was the culprit. Maybe not.
On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 11:58 AM Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote: > ObG&S You don't see a value in being a source of innocent merriment, of > innocent merriment? > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf > of David Crayford [[email protected]] > Sent: Saturday, May 9, 2020 9:53 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Developers say Google's Go is 'most sought after' programming > language of 2020 > > No it’s not it’s a terrible language. It’s so bad it’s almost always the > butt of jokes in the programming community > https://secure-web.cisco.com/1D5GbKP7mQ2dc9oqprUrgNUBk-FvcnenDdPYypi1m8b6n46atI0wGLEMheGsHJ7Dihpk9zQ3x_SeyZn4cTqU4mF16qvB2DadtWDJUarrZHV2srPtPWQlt9nTxF31PBig_rxbIue5vNXpyrQdj9AdSNX0kJqthVlsg4ZT2cDx82Tzjg5VO_OUY7BaEqd3s8W_IYai1T7-p5OlI3MVyvEnYj3ezLUHVkjWsstImtb9ImGRXr8DdbmEc7Co_dQRCfDTO4gFfjrTU5NI29lwwr-zqgNm4V4Q1yJDd_mw8dro2RIMltftJd4KzdlQVwf79bqOiQ7SulBtwzTGxHCd9JO8ePnzE7LNwbWgVXdKARySzBEsI34dpuMcCjgtxMWBabZKx8Lt5FC2FBr6_HILicpviSXX8SwrLi1t2y4vs0SMCEW5IJPeDlDn0q7LRfynDOPhQ/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.i-programmer.info%2Fnews%2F98-languages%2F6758-the-reason-for-the-weird-php-function-names.html > > > On 10 May 2020, at 9:49 am, Jack J. Woehr <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> On 5/9/20 7:12 PM, Seymour J Metz wrote: > >> Python certainly has a lot of eyeballs, although I'm still seeing calls > for PHP, > > > > PHP is a fun language for coding small, interactive websites like the > one I coded "by hand" for my wife's pottery > https://secure-web.cisco.com/1mTHcHlezB5ejC_FMzQtE5ybv8Zeaikbmfcv0JVPU3pVqsy38TrI6-9QZcNHNOMG_tBEofzFfGk7cLsCafh5q4l9goACwzFSth1rXOV09KzfTH42memOyQc0_ZIQrdD_pbuQl3QkFmdgxxkUPpgCUJ74CSHzxX3mQqbAJrxYthv2LOa5qIwGfgrDDkup85VAZUDOprlKqnP9-XO8gTJH0GcP8UbEvfrhKKoEjm8n9c3Gi-VneocloK0IEoqXUir-STwXOhpn7pT5aPo7FEpLcbJgPNdgAeOPkZL-CGDdFfBiDdByscI97cpRQODJJEbs5qJ3oODoXi4oLTFWIVlx7an99vIvH5urzADThcYcLyHW3bpeFJvwOn5lgBgI4-fmGVHN8C6AZJi-81m9Ttzewo6dVUj47H-6A78W2nXty4zIUI10b0TFK8Weaf72Ikwzj/https%3A%2F%2Fherwheel.com > > > > Python is a masterfully designed, mature language, easy to learn, with > huge community module support including scientific programming. > > > > -- > > Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way > of > > > http://secure-web.cisco.com/1uqFUsBXMBauVrR8Uakeug9FStWlp0g6Lt0JEId5KI8qLiResqrI9uOOuwrABJlA6LVmGBNNm0B7yhlAGXiSO2bEvRZpcmJxufMAJ_2etp0veVYOGv76E2aRzjxYmWVWzh4MtC0kalyLZ6ZWGSlWqBoDpV2Orh_YDnIxkszNpJwf28qUY--SLXu14vlT9XUqpIgmFicTqa_8Cs0vtkJOBm2lvZak0rBIXNUY_t-8jvFh5QZtcGDgDSz3u67_fQ4CIkgMXq8AqRCerrt7a57Kg_tURYi9G-AjyU17RpTLqZDjTx9q3my133cCSAM_UnAY2_bA8hKdIu0QNN0Kk5nWju9WYs8HYg4IJ98pd3pytPcmROp2NHshWkJnt0wRlPiUt4Mv10jxrvfK3K-rs_MGC4zbcWGP12igxboyGANChYY-giw2mf-9kq0slCboL8Ngx/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.well.com%2F%7Ejax > # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe > > > http://secure-web.cisco.com/1lg13x6tA3YPMj8LRQDUaW0UH3E7FL4mvSW-nVPb-qieoaQAzZ4z8BsJQ5JlTO7834Rvk2qY0bgPNgrEI0h6A4176AVudEw0f_XtdCJQTUDdAHiY8HH5SfVJkgkUpupY9cupbWh-UdSzs9_KylgtAjC7oPfgdw2qRgZhqaxlyKm6FuoVNs1IKAuiHYW968-uVO-k7tMlhKSDmK99J2KN55hOOw_s9QSlihzvtEbpbuFXWTGeRtOf2UYOJ8E-2Ghjnyj7_-mnY0OwKnpTSoP8ObiIFix5hXfDGWhG1S2Tc_BQFlBTEQAV81VDjQfo003Fq2wefP9BD6G7pk2ACcCKm3d_ZS44o199KBVyngIIYTO2T9eAm7Hw6x3ZRwJ073df7CfN6XA0-O-00AyDXyk0_i_gAcLSZh4vU-FS1FqLciz4ccM9maH1sWv0go8y5EQpK/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.softwoehr.com > # with a fine understanding of human fallibility. - Carl Sagan > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Wayne V. Bickerdike ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
