On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 17:44 +0100, Ford, Mike wrote: > On 28 August 2008 16:40, tedd advised: > > > > > I'm really not that old, I wrote my first line of code in college in > > 1965 -- I even remember the problem. It was how long a swimming pool > > would take to drain to a trickle with the drain open and a garden > > hose filling it. Of course, we were given all the data to solve it, > > but it was more an adventure in keypunching than programming. > > > > Considering that I never took a deferment for college, I was drafted > > in 1966. I didn't even know what Vietnam was -- at the time. > > Ha! You beat me by about 10 years, then -- in 1966, I was a "strange > English kid" attending 4th grade at a School in Santa Monica, CA. (My > dad was in a group of engineers seconded to his company's Los Angeles > parent for a year, and the company paid for families to go too, lucky us > ;) Lots of memories and odd stories -- I think my favourite is one my > dad told for many years afterwards about his first few days in the > drawing office where they worked mainly in pencil, and the shock on the > face of the prim elderly secretary when he raised his head and asked, in > all innocence, if anybody had "a rubber"!!!
Good thing he didn't ask to "bum a fag" ;) I guess he wasn't a smoker. I did ages 4 to 13 in Scotland so I'm familiar with some of the language differences :) Cheers, Rob. -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
