Hi Albert,
I think you are quite right in what you say, that it is never wrong to
revisit why we all took to the QL in the first place.
I might try to persuade John that we should appeal to people to write
about subjects like this.
Thinking cap on, to see how best to approach this...
--
Dilwyn Jones
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----- Original Message -----
From: "ALBERT NEWELL" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 9:57 AM
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Quanta news
Hi Dilwyn
I recently sent an email message to John G. setting out my own basic
philosophy regarding my personal approach to my use of QL and it
occurs to me that, whilst there is a quite brilliant developmental QL
concept, there is an aspect of QL usage that might well be exploited.
What I envisage, is a ' vintage ' approach i.e. a sort of re-visit to
some of the wonderful software that excited us so much when it first
appeared and which, even then alerted us to the brilliance of the QL.
We have the ' Channel 5 Top Gear ' enthusiasts but we also perhaps
have, people such as myself who have an active nostalgia for things,
such as 'cars of yesteryear' that; though they are in hindsight,
recognised as having been more than adequate for the purposes for
which they were designed, have fallen victim to the obsession for
unremitting refinement and updating '. It may be that, in the realms
of computing, I am representing myself as something of a ' troglodyte
'
but, I love the QL for what it is, rather than as a springboard for
parallel identification with systems that, in their sheer scope and
brilliance are becoming, in my humble opinion, totally unrecognisable
as practical, straightforward instruments for the extension of our
ability to perform 'ordinary', perhaps even 'mundane' daily tasks for
which, our mental capacity may be, at times - to say the least - less
than adequate. I know that I am probably addressing a dwindling group
of actively interested, people but, if, like myself, they are people
who have lived with the QL throughout its formative years they may
well, again like myself, have a hankering to re-visit and almost
certainly to learn more about the tools we already have to hand which
justify our conviction as to the soundness of our original choice.
Regards
albertN
--- On Thu, 6/8/09, Dilwyn Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Dilwyn Jones <[email protected]>
Subject: [Ql-Users] Quanta news
To: [email protected]
Date: Thursday, 6 August, 2009, 1:32 PM
I'm in the process of putting together the news column for Quanta
magazine and would like to hear from anyone who has any QL-related
news which could be included
You are welcome to send the news either direct to my email address or
to the Quanta address news AT quanta DOT org DOT uk
-- Dilwyn Jones
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