Subj : Another filearea question
To : Mvan Le
From : Shawn Highfield
Date : Wed Jun 13 2007 09:25 am
Hello Mvan,
On 11/Jun/07 at 07:04 you wrote:
ML> If your home planet is Earth then Pascal programmers are the aliens :)
Naaaa, Pascal looks closer to english. :)
ML> Yep. Stubborn are people who vehemently (and annoyingly) advocate DOS
ML> and/or OS2 and Pascal. I can tell they're trapped in a time warp and
ML> are invariably in their mid 40s. Time is running out for them. MUAhaha
ML> <evil laugh>.
I wouldn't say I vehemently advocate dos and/or os/2. I say use what works
for you. I have Linux machines, an iMac, and the OS/2 machine which I prefer
for the fidonet / BBS stuff. The one thing I don't have a dedicated machine
for is Windows but I do have windows running in Parallels on the mac for work
software.
As for programming, I was taught to program in highschool, the language was
pascal, I'm not a serious programmer nor have any desire to be one. So the way
I look at it, for the one or two text mode programs I write in a year why
should I learn anything new?
I'm also in my early 30's not 40's. (33 to be exact) Just started life a
lot earlier then most people did.
