If one has ever had to work with punched cards (and I have not) genuinely deserves the title "hard core". That stuff was so boring in the 60s that it drove me away from the field.
How did anything get done? ------------------------- Stephen Barncard San Francisco http://houseofcubes.com/disco.irev 2009/11/19 Francis Nugent Dixon <[email protected]> > Hi from Paris, > > I think Jim has it all sown up. > > From: "Jim Bufalini" <[email protected]> > > > So, I think you need focus >> on the lay of the land first. >> > > I went through many languages from 1401 Autocoder, > through Fortran, through Cobol, through 360 Assembler, > and then through PL/1. I was young and capable of > evolving. > > Hypercard (at the age of 45) was a shock, and Revolution > at 60, was a bigger shock. But I took the blows, and > came out winning (and not whining !!) > > The developments of Revolution (revlets, revtalk, > On-Rev, shake the traditional programmer, but you > have to go with the flow, or sink into oblivion. > > Then the question arises - Are there any traditional > programmers left ? - It MAY be a dying breed. > > Best Regards > > -Francis > > "Nothing should ever be done for the first time" > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
