Tim, agree with you there- Cobol was considered e great modern productivity improvement. I started in assembly. Getting a system running by inserting the bootstrapper papertape on the first punched holes, ste the start address through phisical switches and press the start butten. Only after the bootstrapper was loaded the rest of the program could be loaded....
We came a long way since then, but I agree that all the new stuff around now is depriving young people from basic understanding that a computer doesn't know anything, and is not capable of doing anything by itself. Rob. On 19 jul. 2015, at 02:02, Tim---Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: > On 07/18/2015 11:54 AM, charles meyer wrote: >> Hi Jack, >> >> You’re most welcome. >> >> I think many Windows users are married to old verbiage they heard >> years ago (some unfounded) about how you’ll need to learn to code or >> have to learn language like the old DOS to make Linux work and so >> propelled by fear they remain with Windows. >> >> I’m looking forward to all the good work and advancement Eric (on this >> list) makes with his foray into voice recognition but can you or Gary >> on this list or others recommend any Linux-based voice recognition? >> >> Nuance has dragged their heels in so many ways including developing >> voice recognition for more than one voice at a time so I don’t feel >> like I can count on them to offer a Linux-based version by 2020 when >> MS is supposed to end W7 support. >> >> Thanks for disabusing readers of their “Linux-fear” in your article >> and for your and others voice recognition recommendations. >> >> Charles. >> > > I started with computers when punch-cards were still common and computers > smaller than a refrigerator was not. > > I wished I still remembered all the programming skills I have back then [but > that ended with the strokes]. Users are pampered with a GUI and other > "modern" items on their really small sized systems, compared to what I > started working with. You try writing a general ledger accounting system > from scratch in COBOL and then tell me that people do not have it so easy > now. Well, at least if you do not have to do the GUI programming from > scratch instead of using templates, or needing to do AI work withing a game > environment. But the basic business stuff was much harder to produce back > then when colored printing, or even graphical printing, from a low to middle > environment business computer was not available at all. I was programming > computers for over a decade before I ever saw a colored printer, let alone > afford one. > > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
