On 07/22/2018 03:06 PM, Richard Owlett wrote:
On 07/22/2018 10:04 AM, cyaiplexys wrote:
On 07/21/2018 09:43 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
Best wishes to you as well. I hope that I'm still playing around with
this stuff at that age. I remember taking an online C++ course years
ago and there was another student in the class that was 92. He was
taking the course to help him stave off Alzheimer's! He did really
good too. As for me, I got a 100% on my final exam. And here I am
still not great at C or C++. No I didn't cheat. Brain cells up and
aged on me since then!
<memory lane time>
The summer between my high school junior and senior years I had the
opportunity to take a college level physics course. One of my classmates
was positively elderly, being older than my parents - twas 70+ ;/
More seriously, for benefit of lurking "young whipper-snappers", stay
physically *AND* mentally active. My mother, who got her RN in the 20's,
did volunteer work at the Church Home and with social services outreach
to children into her 90's. That kept her physically/socially active. As
to mentally acuity, she pursued crossword puzzles, challenging my
brother-in-law, a tenured full professor of history.
End of lecture. *THINK*
I will take that advice to heart seriously. To you, I'm still a "young
whipper-snapper" even at my age. :) I agree that keeping one's mind
occupied keeps it sharp. Which is another reason I'll always be
programming *something*. Back in the day I would try to learn everything
about computers that I could. Even some rather odd and esoteric
languages (like Liberty Basic and another not at all well known language
called "euphoria"
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphoria_(programming_language) way back
when it first came out. That was a very interesting experience to say
the least!
Ironically I never even tried Fortran, Cobol or Lisp. There's a good
many out there I never even tried (yet, still).
Now I seem to be rather stuck to Python like I was with Visual Basic.
Python is portable as well and with cython, one can compile to a binary
(though I don't really do that with 99.999% of my Python scripts).
