On 7/14/06, Mark Stanton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yes, this old (& busy with much else apart from s/w development) dog
is less keen to volunteer for learning curves than he used to be.
Sounds inevitable though.
> Then Ted Roche scribbled:
>
Seems like the only thing you can count on remaining the same is
change. I think the claim (which I vehemently disagree with) that
"programming is a young man's job" is based on all fhe folks who bail
out after a couple of years on the merry-go-round (or the
roller-coaster).
But I disagree with your disagreement. I find myself considerably less
agile in the upstairs department as well as the 'downstairs' department.
It takes me forever to remember where to increment the variable in a
loop so that I get 'one more' or 'one less' iteration. I can't calculate
a mod(x,y) in my head to save my life. And without intellisense, my VFP
code would look like dBASE II, because I can't remember past two work areas.
I've been trying one of those 'word a day' calendars. Isn't working at
all. I can't remember to try to work one of those words in my daily
conversation - and I've been trying to use the word I learned on 6/04
for five weeks now. Maybe I need more interesting friends to talk to.
If it weren't for sticky notes, I wouldn't even know what IP my desktop
machines are. Learning new programming paradigms (Python, PHP, MySQL,
AJAX).... hell, I had to look up "AJAX" because I couldn't remember it's
name.
Only 94 years to go. I'm hoping this dip in brainpower is a trough in a
sine wave, not a lemmings off the cliff type of curve.
Whil
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