--- The Fool said: I > Still don't> understand why Dr. Brin has Difficulty with Qbasic. > It seems very much > like he's expressing the meme: "things were better > in the past, a golden> age" that he himself rails against so much.
Well now ain't that sweet. An' seein' as how it bears no relationship to actual objective reality, ain't it creative, too? In fact, I simply wanted to show my son the relationship between math and the location of the myriad dots on a computer screen. By letting HIM create a program that uses an algorithm to achieve results, I hope to demystify computers and coding and show that it all comes down to lines of code. You may choose to interpret this as "the past is better". But since, as you say, this is diametrically opposite to my philosophy, an honorable approach might have been to take that interpretation and contemplate the wise words: "I might be mistaken." db Well > the past wasn't better. > Qbasic does everything I heard him complain about, > and without > downgrading or getting another old nearly useless > computer. Furthermore > their is plenty of human help you can get for free > anytime by using > Usenet. I fixed the syntax error in the code he > posted, launched Qbasic, > pasted the code in, and guess what? It ran. But, > unfortunately, it > seems the good Dr. thinks that the technology of an > Apple II is better > than the technology of a modern computer, or even a > 1990 MS-DOS 6.2 > computer. > > _______________________________________________ > http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l > _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
