On Friday 10 November 2006 10:45, Carlos E. R. wrote: > The Thursday 2006-11-09 at 19:03 -0800, Kai Ponte wrote: > > > > > When I code something, I do it in Pascal. > > > > > > > > I thought real programmers write code at the command line: in > > > > DOStalk, copy con filename.exe > > > > > > > > :-) > > > > > > X'-) > > > > > > It's been a long time since I heard that one. > > > > I wonder how many here even actually know what that one is anymore. :P > > Not many, I guess. > > But I remember buying the old pcmagazine and typing rows of hexadecimal as > "data" lines for a basic program that would then create a tiny .com > program like "ted.com". There were things like modems, I had heard, but a > transatlantic phone call to get a file was totally out of the question for > a student like me. Pretty close to "copy con..." I guess ;-) > > > That's why I don't use Vi. Too many bad memories of edlin, followed by > > copy con. > > > > Next thing you'll be doing is telling me to cat something. > > Nope! I come from Dos times, I sharpened my teeth on it, not on windows, > nor on unix. When I discovered Linux I was very happy to find the "dos" > that never were! I mean, I could do in a command line things I had been > waiting for but never came to be in Dos. I still have difficulties with > some pitholes the linux command line has for dos oldtimers. > This I can relate to. As I am learning Linux, I can see that it is much more useful than DOS, but I still remember just enough DOS to confuse me at times. > > You know, older programmers could have a joke like real programming was > done with physical switches; there were old computers you actually had to > load the initial boot program into memory, programming word by word > flipping switches. Or so I have been told. Cute :-)
I remember the switches from high school, but I was not allowed to join the computer class because my history grades were not high enough. (History?) -- -- ED -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
