I don't consider myself to be a real programmer -- I started in COBOL which is not a real programmer's tool.
The "real" programmers I knew were the ones who would punch object code with a 15 key hand card punch and load it on the B500 and have it perform a useful task. But I do take exception to one of your comments. I don't often answer to "him". I was going to take exception with the 35 years, but unfortunately you are right (oh dear) Olwen Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -----Original Message----- From: Don Gould [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 1:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Gnomemeeting to go to QT --> QT Demo... Olwen, You may consider your self a real programmer because you use a product that's older than half of the programmers out there writting web pages today... I'm not going to argue the toss with you on that one :) Just because you've been doing something badly and the hard way for near on 35 years is no reason to stop now (in my book anyway). (Dear God, please let Olwen see that I'm just pulling his chain a little and he should simply write me off with contempt for the comments above, Kind regards Don.) As for real programmers... the one guy I considered a 'real programmer' (this life time) could program in ASM faster than most people I know can read. I've never seen someone take 100,000 lines of code and turn it into something that works over night before I saw what this guy did with some call accounting software that we'd had someone else design. Anyway, I think I should leave the rest of this debate for a beer down at a local pub some time. Cheers Don ____________________________________________________________________ CAUTION - This message may contain privileged and confidential information intended only for the use of the addressee named above. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, distribution or reproduction of this message is prohibited. If you have received this message in error please notify Safe Air Ltd immediately. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of Safe Air. _____________________________________________________________________ For more information on the Safe Air Group, visit us online at http://www.safeair.co.nz/ _____________________________________________________________________
