Hi Irapuan,

Your English is not bad - better than some native speakers I have
worked with, in fact! :)

On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 00:40:00 -0300, you wrote:
> Look that:
>
> http://www.apcmag.com/apc/v3.nsf/0/A569C81864DC4F1BCA256E5F001A59C5
>
> Here in Brazil, I see this same type of opinion frequently, ...

I have worked in the computer field for over forty years, and, like
you, am still amazed to find how intransigent many in this field are.
You'd think that a cutting-edge field would attract people open to change,
but such is not the case. Only three years ago I had a project lead
angry at me for daring to use lower case in my COBOL code!

There is a name for such people in English - Luddites:
<http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/luddite.html>

Thanks for raising this issue. After forty years I still don't know
how to deal with it.

Life. Love. Peace.
David
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David Hucklesby, on 4/16/2004
Read "Obituary" at http://www.hucklesby.com/
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