Re: [Hampshire] Whatever happened to programming? (O.T?)

Ian Park wrote: > Lisi wrote: > >> On Sunday 21 March 2010 21:16:30 Chris. Aubrey-Smith wrote: >> >>> Rather making a >>> plea for a return to the principle of simplicity, which I was taught was >>> the essence of good programming. >>> >> We had to keep it taut and simple - we had s

Re: [Hampshire] Whatever happened to programming? (O.T?)

Amiga 2000 with 1MB ram, connected to a Maspro satellite receiver - which was connected to a Maspro dish positioner. Code written to control the channel on the receiver, and thus the satellite the dish was pointing at. You stacked up the date and time and which channel you wanted the receiver t

Re: [Hampshire] Whatever happened to programming? (O.T?)

Lisi wrote: > On Sunday 21 March 2010 21:16:30 Chris. Aubrey-Smith wrote: >> Rather making a >> plea for a return to the principle of simplicity, which I was taught was >> the essence of good programming. > > We had to keep it taut and simple - we had so little memory available. > Elegance was

Re: [Hampshire] Whatever happened to programming? (O.T?)

On Sunday 21 March 2010 21:16:30 Chris. Aubrey-Smith wrote: > Rather making a > plea for a return to the principle of simplicity, which I was taught was > the essence of good programming. We had to keep it taut and simple - we had so little memory available. Elegance wasn't purely for elegance

Re: [Hampshire] Whatever happened to programming? (O.T?)

Developers: Simpler "Hello World" Demonstrated In C on Tuesday March 16, @10:03PM Posted by kdawson on Tuesday March 16, @10:03PM fr

Re: [Hampshire] Whatever happened to programming?

On 8 March 2010 13:47, Daniel Pope wrote: > On 08/03/10 13:42, Daniel Pope wrote: >> Being productive is so bloody boring. > > Sorry, just read that back, and realised I may have come across as a teeny bit > sarcastic. No problem :-) I did say that I was not a programmer, and like the challenge m

Re: [Hampshire] Whatever happened to programming?

On 08/03/10 13:42, Daniel Pope wrote: > Being productive is so bloody boring. Sorry, just read that back, and realised I may have come across as a teeny bit sarcastic. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: h

Re: [Hampshire] Whatever happened to programming?

On 08/03/10 13:19, Philip Stubbs wrote: > With such a lot being said about Python, I thought that it > would be good to use the opportunity to learn that language. > > The problem was that it is so boring looking for a suitable module to > do whatever. I just know that there must be a module that w

Re: [Hampshire] Whatever happened to programming?

I am not a programmer, but this thread makes me feel that I am not alone in my thoughts. At work, I have a small task that involves extracting data from a data logger, and munging it into a format suitable for graphing. A small perl script does this just fine, but I normally end up editing the scr

Re: [Hampshire] Whatever happened to programming?

> -Original Message- > From: hampshire-boun...@mailman.lug.org.uk [mailto:hampshire- > boun...@mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Stephen Davies > Sent: 07 March 2010 08:25 > To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List > Subject: [Hampshire] Whatever happened to programming

Re: [Hampshire] Whatever happened to programming?

On 8 March 2010 09:54, Stephen Rowles wrote: > On 03/07/2010 08:25 AM, Stephen Davies wrote: > > > These seems to me like the typical "in my day" rants. > > Here's another... I started off in this life as an assembler programmer, but decided long ago that life's too short for assembler. However

Re: [Hampshire] Whatever happened to programming?

On 03/07/2010 08:25 AM, Stephen Davies wrote: > There is an interesting discussion on /. with the above topic. > > http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1573922 > > as someone who started out using Punched Cards& Paper Tape (but I bow > down in age to John Lewis) > and who has programmed

Re: [Hampshire] Whatever happened to programming?

Isaac Close wrote: > --- On Sun, 7/3/10, john lewis wrote: > >> On Sun, 7 Mar 2010 10:45:29 + >> Samuel Penn >> wrote: >> >>> Many programmers are business people who know how to >> write VB >>> macros in Excel, who end up being told to turn their >> spreadsheet >>> into a business critical

Re: [Hampshire] Whatever happened to programming?

--- On Sun, 7/3/10, john lewis wrote: > On Sun, 7 Mar 2010 10:45:29 + > Samuel Penn > wrote: > > > Many programmers are business people who know how to > write VB > > macros in Excel, who end up being told to turn their > spreadsheet > > into a business critical application. > > Done that

Re: [Hampshire] Whatever happened to programming?

On Sun, 7 Mar 2010 10:45:29 + Samuel Penn wrote: > Many programmers are business people who know how to write VB > macros in Excel, who end up being told to turn their spreadsheet > into a business critical application. Done that with SuperCalc. In my last employment I had a need for some

Re: [Hampshire] Whatever happened to programming?

On Sunday 07 March 2010 08:25:15 Stephen Davies wrote: > There is an interesting discussion on /. with the above topic. > > http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1573922 Obviously, since it's Slashdot, I haven't read the article. > This was all in 1977/78. Rewind to today and frankly th

[Hampshire] Whatever happened to programming?

There is an interesting discussion on /. with the above topic. http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1573922 as someone who started out using Punched Cards & Paper Tape (but I bow down in age to John Lewis) and who has programmed in Fortran, Algol, Coral 66, Basic, Ada, Cobol, Java, C,