remember in high school spending hours searching for this one error in a
program and discovering that it was a misplaced semi-colon. That would have
taken about 5 minutes now at the most.
I do not think that the ease of the programming is the issue, it's the
understanding of the concepts and how they related. The basic methods are
the same, how you get there different though.
larry
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tangorre, Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 8:47 AM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: RE: age and politics
>
>
> > I started when I was around the same age - that would make it
> > over 30 years.
> > Scary. But the real scary part is that it was on punch cards.
> > (somewhere in storage I still have a copy of one of those
> > programs - about the only one that wasn't turned into a
> > Christmas wreathe).
>
> I have only been out of college a couple years now and
> remember thinking how I would have loved to have been able to
> learn to program back in the day like you. I think having a
> better understanding of early generation programming
> languages would help not only myself, but students of
> programming as a whole get a grasp on what the hell they are
> doing!!!... With all the drag and drop crap of today, it
> makes things easier but it sure takes something out of the
> art as well. I knew people that could use Visual Studio to
> knock out a fairly simple program in C++ but the minute you
> asked them to explain how pointers worked or how hardware and
> interrupts worked, they had not the foggiest notion.
>
> Oh well... My Visual Studio just crashed, I should reboot. :-)
>
> Mike
>
>
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