On 13 Mar 2003, alex wrote: > On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 15:43, Shevek wrote:
> > My opinion on programming (this week) is that the modern generation of > > programmer has never used any system where commands are executed as you > > type them, and thus they have no concept of a sequence of instructions, > > and therefore they cannot program. > > Understanding a program as a sequence of instructions does seem like a > rather old fashioned way of thinking. > > But then I thought Perl was post-modern? Retro is the new post-modern. See the hordes of users (and possible future programmers) revelling in the pointy-clicky web world, little do they realise that the whizziest features they have are often the result of just a few fairly trivial lines in some archaic-looking text-in-an-xterm. the hatter
