Gosh, I don't stand a chance: born in 1962, sent off Hollerith cards to Imperial College in 1974, worked with a Research Machine 1976.
Graham Samual wrote: "The sheer intellectual drive and sense of fun" and it seems to have gone; to be replaced by people who are deadly earnest and wouldn't know lateral thinking if it hit them in the head. That is why I spend most of my time teaching Primary kids English (and sneaking in the odd bit of programming when their parents are off their guard) - the sense of wonder is still there - of course it gets raped by the glut of hi-tech pap and wall-to-wall sense bombardment that is the day-to-day of the modern world. Recently, I started my younger son on Runtime Revolution: and rediscovered that sense of wonder when attached to computers (my older son is 'married' to a piano and spends about 7-8 hours a day playing that). I do believe that really innovative computer work can only be done by those who still manage to retain that sense of fun and wonder. Needless to say; I start kids programming by playing with cups and buttons on the carpet - variables, constants and strings are a bit abstract for children! sincerely, Richmond Mathewson. ____________________________________________________________ A Thorn in the flesh is better than a failed Systems Development Life Cycle. ____________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________ Inbox full of unwanted email? Get leading protection and 1GB storage with All New Yahoo! Mail. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html _______________________________________________ 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