On 25/09/2022 05:02, David Crayford wrote:
There's some interesting videos here. All entertaining in their own way. It's like any dogma, if
you want to believe then you will. If you have spent your entire career using structured
programming you probably think "hell yeah"!
Is such a person the primary target audience of this presentation? I don't think so (the audience is
younger). In some other presentation (I don't know the conf/presenter): "If you agree with me, you
haven't understood".
One funny "critique/comment" is the fortran COMEFROM :-) Easy to implement btw. The spaghetti
monster"s programming language, (R)amen.
IMHO, your last sentence may provide a hint. If one spends all his career using the same "paradigm"
(or whatever one may call a "religion") ... And then may even reinvent a square shaped wheel (where
pi equals 4) ... Or a cubic sphere (in my neighborhood), which is actually fun :-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNSTJ2Y80OQ
Lot's of things to be critized about the following, too. But whow, putting *all* this into a short
presentation. (I missed some, e.g. SNOBOL, CDL).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fpDlAEQio4
As already said, I was lucky to work as a student (and later as IBM systems programmer) in a
mainframe environment of a CS and math research institute (GMD) with >1000 people. Chance to see
"beyond and avove" and "play with" a multitude of different perspectives and experiments, some good,
some no so, software (totally unstructured programs), hardware (lisp/reduction machine, Suprenum,
Eumel), theories (Petri Nets, Interval arithmetic). And, of course, preachers, dogmas.
Best
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