On Feb 18, 4:48 am, Tony Mechelynck <[email protected]> wrote:
> If someone, be he named Dijkstra or > anything else, tries to tell me in what languages I "may" program and to > put his "laws" to execution, I shall treat him as an oppressor. You > Vimmers be the judges of whether the years I spent programming mostly in > COBOL (and some in assembly language) crippled my mind. Having suffered the same fate, but more importantly seen the crippling effects on others, I must allow that he (Dijkstra) has, or had, a point. Perhaps I have a "that which did not kill me, made me stronger" attitude, but "crippling" is not too string a word for some former colleagues, particularly cobol-74. Regards, John --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
