WELL. . .
I have a few 'direct' things to say here:
1. I spent 4 years fighting with Fortran 4 (in the late 1970s) and getting only
2 things out of it:
a monumental headache, and (Ha, Ha, Ha) a reputation as a kid who knew about
computer programming.
2. I spent a year (mid 80's) fighting with PASCAL and ZILOG (!!!) and getting
only 2
things out of them:
a monumental headache, and a decent grade as part of my Philosophy degree.
3. In 1993 I went to the States and looked after the baby while my wife started
a Masters
degree - I bought a Mac from Montgomery-Ward (why a Mac? Because my Maternal
grandfather's
family name was Macintosh - a good a reason as any!) and there was Hypercard;
it saved me from
battering the baby (mind you, he is now a VERY adolescent 14 year old and I
have "my moments")>
no headaches
4. The other day a "maladjusted 15 year-old" landed on my desk - seriously
disfunctional
and seriously defocussed -
not advocating Runtime Revolution as the complete panacea for mental health
problems
BUT: that kid is now spending all hours of the night and day wading through
the documentation
(2.2.1 Novel Linux free version) on a Pentium 3 running Xubuntu and is
producing the traditional
starter progs ("Hello World", pocket calculator, database thingy and so on)
with great gusto AND
without the supposedly required 2-20 years computing experience first.
There is a place in the world for computing experts - and there is also a place
for computerised LEGO kits:
and as far as I can see RR should be good for both.
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson
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"Philosophical problems are confusions arising owing to the fluidity of
meanings users attach to words and phrases."
Mathewson, 2006
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