On Fri, April 20, 2007 2:00 am, Andrew Lentvorski wrote: > Lan Barnes wrote: >> >> Scoff. You're a meer pup! > > Hey! Don't insult people who have a pround parentage of Suricata > suricatta. > > <You meant mere, BTW ...>
Spelling fascist! Correct spelling is the goal of the obsessive-compulsive anyway ... right, Carl? > >> Trash 80s, >> >> :-( >> >> and COBOL. > > Hey! It was possible to use a Trash 80 and *not* use COBOL, thanks. > > Some of us knew that COBOL sucked even back then ... > > Not that Microsoft Basic was much better... > > Somehow I managed to get to C after only 4 years of computers. Given > the alternatives, I consider myself lucky. > One of the nice things about charting my own course back then instead of listening to mainstream people is I got to go straight to C without pausing in Fortran, COBOL or BASIC, which is what I was being strongly advised to study "for my own good and commercial viability." -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
