> Besides, no *serious* programmer has only one tool in his or herkit because no one tool is a panacea.
Yep, that's the *best* insurance!
For those of you who know the "traditional" languages, the rest of us can only wish. It took a year to decide whether to migrate to MC or take the plunge and learn C. Learning a "traditional" language would easily set me back two years, and I don't know about you guys, but the two days a week I'm forced to work at a job I despise, while I'm working like hell to build my company, isn't something I want to have to do another two years to add a backup to the toolbox. I'm hoping to have the option to go full time with my company in 2004, and blow those buggers off. Being a * serious * programmer has nothing to do with it. I work 7 days a week most weeks. And am very determined.
I envy those of you who are 35 and under, who at least had computer access as a teenager. I am 40+++++. In school, we had manual typewriters, not electronic, not electric, but MANUAL. Computers were something that existed for IBM and the big companies. Nobody I knew had one at home. I never even saw one until I was in my late twenties/early thirties, and then it was a DOS computer at a store. Didn't impress me. Looked like a glorified word processor, so I never bothered to dig deeper. I got a very very late start at this, so time to me is a big issue. That's why I get so tweaky at anything that sucks time away. I don't know a traditional language, I taught myself via Hypercard to program. C is gobbledygook to me.
And my primary goal is Gypsy King Software. It isn't a hobby. It is my company. My heart and soul :-)
So beware what criteria you use to define a * serious programmer *.
Shari C Gypsy King Software, Inc. -- --Shareware Games for the Mac-- http://www.gypsyware.com _______________________________________________ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
