I guess to each their own, no? Kevin
-----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jay Maynard Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 9:45 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Create PDFs On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 09:33:50AM -0400, Evans, Kevin R wrote: > I worked in the embedded field for about 20+ years and never used it > myself. No self respecting software developer would use it (at least for > the military stuff that I worked on). As far as I saw, the code was > almost impossible to maintain. My roommate's reply: "If you write it [Forth] to be maintainable, it'll be maintainable. If you write it to look like Perl, you'll get an unmaintainable mess. It's an amplifier: it amplifies mistakes really, really well." -- Jay Maynard, K5ZC http://www.conmicro.com http://jmaynard.livejournal.com http://www.tronguy.net http://www.hercules-390.org (Yes, that's me!) Buy Hercules stuff at http://www.cafepress.com/hercules-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390