Chris,
On 11/01/19 10:06 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 8:01 AM DL Neil <pythonl...@danceswithmice.info> wrote:
PS the smart reply: who do you think coded the Alt-Tab window-switching
mechanism?
or, whose shoulders' do you young, whipper-snappers think you're
standing on? (and, "please get down, and go and wash your feet")
Hold on hold on. "Window-switching mechanism"? That implies that you
have windows to switch between. First, we have to have the concept of
multiple programs running at once. Then the concept of each of those
programs having its own isolated display, which you can then switch
between...
Before Windows or windows per-se, we had switching between Foreground
and Background - but using those terms today encourages people to start
raving about Themes and color choices...
I had people 'on the hook' for quite a while talking about WIMPs. They
thought I was into some long-winded, shaggy-dog style of joke. They had
no concept that what they think of as MS-Windows, or indeed Linux
windows managers; actually consists of a number of inter-related concepts...
But yeah, "whose shoulders are you standing on" is the right way to
look at it. Also: "are you offering YOUR shoulders to the next
generation?"
+1
Excellent!
(and no, in our 'get it done yesterday' environment I see plenty of
collaboration but little meaningful 'training' or investment beyond 'the
job')
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