On Thu, 8 Sept 2022 at 05:09, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 2022-09-07, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, 8 Sept 2022 at 04:54, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > >> If you're a beginning programmer, then IMO learning C first is > >> probably detrimental. [...] > > > > Not as detrimental as starting with BASIC, and then moving on to x86 > > assembly language, and trying to massage the two together using CALL > > ABSOLUTE in order to get mouse input in your GW-BASIC programs. > > Ah the "good old days". >
Indeed. The 1990s gave me all manner of skills, including the aforementioned mouse control in a BASIC program, writing a Terminate-and-Stay-Resident program that hooks an interrupt, tricks for *not* writing a TSR and still acting like one, building GUIs using pixel precision, building GUIs using pixel precision but fully automatically, using HTML tables to create layouts.... oh, yes, so many skills... To anyone suffering from https://xkcd.com/1479/ right now, I can assure you, quite a lot of that knowledge DOES eventually become obsolete when better methods come along. It just sometimes takes a decade or more. (And then occasionally it still haunts you. I'm finding table-based layouts in a site that I now have to manage. Eventually I'll fix it all, eventually....) ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
