> -----Original Message----- > From: Sven Luther [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 1:18 AM > To: Barry deFreese > Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: Re: [OT] A question for programmers - Inspiration > > > On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 09:30:49PM -0800, Barry deFreese wrote: > > Thank you for the advice it is much appreciated. I should > have gone a > > little futher in my background. I have done quite a bit of > > "programming". I learned FORTRAN/77, Basic on VMS, and > Cobol on VMS in > > college. I have written in VB, VBScript, JavaScript. In > fact part of > > my "job" today is writing Active Server Pages. So I have > some of the > > "concepts" down to a degree. I will definetely check into > the books and > > You should try a functional language for a change :))) > > (but then, this is biased advice, i am the ocaml maintainer > after all). > > Friendly, > > Sven Luther >
I'm certainly not opposed to learning anything, unfortunately I was "raised" in the M$ world and it currently pays my bills. Though I have actually written a few RPG programs on the AS/400 also - Yuck!!! :-) Barry deFreese Technology Services Manager Nike Team Sports (949)-616-4005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Technology doesn't make you less stupid; it just makes you stupid faster." Jerry Gregoire - Former CIO at Dell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
