>to your question: Or get used to being an early adopter anyway? there is
a problem -- what will you do if the computing world goes against you...
or you could also join the side of the fence that demands that library
functions should be adaptable by all languages, yours to pick and choose
and that syntax should be up to the end user's choice as well...
certainly there are enough interpreters available to allow this. You
could code in your syntax of choice... {back tor reality}... Object
Oriented paradigm works best if you can keep it simple... complexity
grows exponentially which makes debugging damn near impossible: a-la Java
Frames..etc
And yes I miss my WordStar :)) Except for search and spell checking,
WordStar did everything with one hell of amount less memory than my
OpenOffice :))
My Two cents,
an absentee member of HVLUG,
Nick
On Saturday, March 03, 2012 12:14:14 PM, Jack Chastain wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Joseph Apuzzo <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > So it all boils down to thinking in the correct Programming
>> > paradigm<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_paradigm>
>> >
>> > !
>>
>> Yes - Precisely. Which of course is the exact problem for a mind that no
>> longer is as flexible as it once was.
>
> At least some studies have shown that the mind can be flexible even up
> past
> age 70 and that some people can learn at that age just as fast as someone
> in
> their 20's. Un-learning is more difficult than learning, though. ;-)
>
>> I used to keep count of the number of word processors (remember when we
>> called them that?) I could use - fluently - without having to resort to
>> a
>> book too terribly often. I stopped keeping track around 20. As far as I
>> know, I could manipulate a daisywheel printer (oh man, am I dating
>> myself
>> here) with Scripsit (Gaaaa!) and draw things like boxes around stuff. I
>> even have (still) the HP PCL manual. Why in the name of all that's
>> ridiculous am I keeping THAT thing?
>
> Maybe in the back of your mind you still think it has a use, otherwise you
> wouldn't keep it. On occasion I keep something old and outdated like that
> because I think it might have a purpose.
>
> For instance I still have a 5-CD set from InfoMagic of "Linux" from Nov
> 1995.
> I also have a 6-CD set of the same from June 1998. I recently tried to
> install both to find out what window managers Slackware came with at the
> time.
> I wasn't able to get the Nov 1995 Slackware 3.0 working [trouble switching
> boot floppy images], but I was able to install the June 1998 version of
> Slackware 3.5 and get it working. In mid-1998 Slackware 3.5 came with 4
> choices: mwm, twm, fvwm2, and fvwm95. [Getting XFree86 working to be
> ablet to
> see them... that's a whole other matter.]
>
>> I either worked or dabbled in BASIC, forth, APL, pascal, C, fortran,
>> COBOL,
>> perl, shell and a few other silly things. It used to be easy (OK - not
>> APL).
>
> The first programming language I remember was HPL, which was mainly a
> combination of Lisp and Forth. A portion of it lives on today on HP
> calculators. Then several different styles of BASIC (Z80, TI 99 4/A, C64,
> GWBasic, QBasic, etc), Pascal, C, 8086 Assembly, C++, and on from there...
>
>> And now - if I think of getting out of ksh, I shudder and stare at my
>> screen for 15 minutes before thinking I can even start. Don't get old.
>>
>> :-)
>
> Or get used to being an early adopter anyway? ;-)
>
> -- Chris
>
> --
> Chris Knadle
> [email protected]
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