Ancient Programming
I got an email today with a video of a mechanical boy writing a letter - made in Switzerland 240 years ago. Made me think of designing something using today's programming languages - how easy it is, comparatively. I posted a link to the video on my web site: johnwfa.com. -- JohnW-MN ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
OT: Ancient Programming
JohnW-Mpls wrote: I got an email today with a video of a mechanical boy writing a letter - made in Switzerland 240 years ago. Made me think of designing something using today's programming languages - how easy it is, comparatively. I posted a link to the video on my web site: johnwfa.com. Only 240 years ago ? The ancient Greeks used notebook computers with styli, as the figure at the top of this image clearly shews : http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/image?img=Perseus:image:1992.07.0230redirect=true Philip Taylor ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: OT: Ancient Programming
Philip Taylor wrote: JohnW-Mpls wrote: I got an email today with a video of a mechanical boy writing a letter - made in Switzerland 240 years ago. Made me think of designing something using today's programming languages - how easy it is, comparatively. I posted a link to the video on my web site: johnwfa.com. Only 240 years ago ? The ancient Greeks used notebook computers with styli, as the figure at the top of this image clearly shews : http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/image?img=Perseus:image:1992.07.0230redirect=true Philip Taylor ...and they used edifice-Book to share pictures. -- - Rufus ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: OT: Ancient Programming
Rufus wrote: Philip Taylor wrote: JohnW-Mpls wrote: I got an email today with a video of a mechanical boy writing a letter - made in Switzerland 240 years ago. Made me think of designing something using today's programming languages - how easy it is, comparatively. I posted a link to the video on my web site: johnwfa.com. Only 240 years ago ? The ancient Greeks used notebook computers with styli, as the figure at the top of this image clearly shews : http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/image?img=Perseus:image:1992.07.0230redirect=true ...and they used edifice-Book to share pictures. What worries me is that the cinematographic art has only progressed as far as it has in all that time. -- War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left. -- Paul B. Gallagher ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
