Hi Stephan and Francis, > If one has ever had to work with punched cards (and I have not) > genuinely > deserves the title "hard core". That stuff was so boring in the 60s > that it > drove me away from the field.
I did as a teenager in high school on a summer job (circa 1968). ;-) I had actually forgotten this until just now. > How did anything get done? Veeerrryyy slowly as you kept watching the clock for it to hit 5:00 pm. ;-) > ------------------------- > Stephen Barncard > San Francisco > http://houseofcubes.com/disco.irev > > > 2009/11/19 Francis Nugent Dixon <effe...@wanadoo.fr> > > > Hi from Paris, > > <snip> > > and came out winning (and not whining !!) Clever. I like this. I am going to steal it! ;-) > > Then the question arises - Are there any traditional > > programmers left ? - It MAY be a dying breed. Almost any language that is not of the xtalk variety, such as C++, .net, Visual Basic, etc. is "traditional" compared to revTalk and there are more of these types of programmers than ever before. Aloha from Hawaii, Jim Bufalini _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
