-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 12/08/06 20:27, Douglas Tutty wrote: > On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 11:26:19AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 05:23:16PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> On 12/07/06 11:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] > I wish there was an interactive museum where old-tech guys like me could > go play with the old stuff. My sense is that programmers of your > generation wrote tighter code than is common today since you had such > limited (compared to now) memory, processing, etc, into which to > shoe-horn things.
Remember, though, that (except for esoteric boxen like LISP machines) systems were simpler back then. Mainly libraries written in assembly language. And no OO or GUI gunk!!! > I'm glad you guys are taking the time to share your wisdom and > experience here. Thank you. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFesPQS9HxQb37XmcRAl4oAJ97xxpCYgi92dbrhP0QgiPOMZy/GQCghHjY XMVmBaxSV+I48OGbjPh6gIA= =XSET -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
