Started my love of programming with a course in Fortran IV in college about
1972. Borrowed my older brother’s Commadore Vic 20 and learned Basic from its
documentation. Later purchased a Mac SE from my brother that came with the full
version of HyperCard. Still going strong, but with LiveCode no
On May 15, 2016, at 17:51 , Bruce Pokras
mailto:dangmac...@gmail.com>> wrote:
I think I should take umbrage on the insinuation that
the 60-85 "crowd" are just "slobbering old, senile whatsits" !
Whenever it is your time, then slobber (has it already begun ?)"
I'm streets away
-Franci
Started my love of programming with a course in Fortran IV in college about
1972. Borrowed my older brother’s Commadore Vic 20 and learned Basic from its
documentation. Later purchased a Mac SE from my brother that came with the full
version of HyperCard. Still going strong, but with LiveCode no
You know, I was initially gratified that so many old-timers are still not
slobbering.
But then I wondered, where are the 16-40 year olds?
Craig
-Original Message-
From: Jerry Jensen
To: How to use LiveCode
Sent: Mon, May 2, 2016 3:24 pm
Subject: Re: Beeing a developer after 40
No, can't match that, I'm running at only 40 years.
Congratulations. Richmond.
On 2.05.2016 22:22, Jerry Jensen wrote:
On May 2, 2016, at 12:14 PM, Francis Nugent Dixon wrote:
Hi from Beautiful Brittnay,
Richard,
nor to the 60-85 year old crowd
(I'll become a slobbering old, senile whatsit
> On May 2, 2016, at 12:14 PM, Francis Nugent Dixon wrote:
>
> Hi from Beautiful Brittnay,
>
> Richard,
>
>> nor to the 60-85 year old crowd
>> (I'll become a slobbering old, senile whatsit in
>> my own good time anyway).
>
>
> I think I should take umbrage on the insinuation that
> the 60-
I'm not slobbering yet (well, except in anticipation at the first stable
release of Livecode 8.0),
nor is my father who is pushing 84, nor my mother who should be 86 this
summer.
However there are a fair few slobberers round the streets of Plovdiv;
some of whom are younger than me.
Whether t
On 05/02/2016 04:11 AM, Peter TB Brett wrote:
// Rust
for t_item in t_lst.iter() {
println!("{}", item)
}
Nice to see Rust showing up in the list.
--
Mark Wieder
ahsoftw...@gmail.com
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On 2.05.2016 13:31, Lyn Teyla wrote:
Stephen Barncard wrote:
obviously one hasn't been to a LC event lately. More white hair and
ponytails on old folks than an AES convention. The cool geeks club.
I’ve got nothing against younger or older people at all, but:
Whenever I come across photos of
On 02/05/2016 11:31, Lyn Teyla wrote:
Stephen Barncard wrote:
obviously one hasn't been to a LC event lately. More white hair
and ponytails on old folks than an AES convention. The cool geeks
club.
I’ve got nothing against younger or older people at all, but:
Whenever I come across photos o
Stephen Barncard wrote:
> obviously one hasn't been to a LC event lately. More white hair and
> ponytails on old folks than an AES convention. The cool geeks club.
I’ve got nothing against younger or older people at all, but:
Whenever I come across photos of LiveCode events, and see white hair
I've got white-blond hair, a white mustache, and black eyebrows. 67yo. Can't
afford to retire. Not a professional coder, but at it for over 25 years on the
side.
I just hope that all of us aren't over 40. Is LC going to disappear with the
boomers?
-- Peter
Peter M. Brigham
pmb...@gmail.com
O
'Grey hair
that mantle of glory,
the only item of respect
that does not incite envy' ...:-)
> Subject: Re: Beeing a developer after 40
> To: use-livecode@lists.runrev.com
> From: richmondmathew...@gmail.com
> Date: Sun, 1 May 2016 20:49:38 +0300
>
> I'm getting
I'm getting there, slowly: my beard is about 50% white now: Hey, wait,
that must mean I'm 50% of a programmer!
There's hope for me yet.
Richmond.
On 1.05.2016 20:25, stephen barncard wrote:
On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 11:05 AM, wrote:
I don't feel so old anymore. I thought everyone on this li
On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 11:05 AM, wrote:
> I don't feel so old anymore. I thought everyone on this list, going back
> to the HC list, was a teenager or worse. Shows what cultural influences can
> do to you.
>
>
obviously one hasn't been to a LC event lately. More white hair and
ponytails on old
I feel refreshingly young at 54, and having done my first programming in
1975, and seen my first computer that I could actually
program directly (rather than by punching holes in cards) in 1976.
Good on you chaps.
Richmond.
On 30.04.2016 19:55, Graham Samuel wrote:
Keep going Francis! You bea
Keep going Francis! You beat me to your first digital computer - I had to wait
until 1961! Still, I more or less fulfill your points 1 to 4.
I loved programming and software design, and recycled myself after retirement
so as to get some of the magic back. LiveCode (and its predecessors) seemed t
Thank you for telling your story Francis! I can now see my tech
beginnings were quite advanced - I began programming on an IBM 360 model
30. Card readers were the only inputs, 32k of memory (2 16k
partitions!), a console full of flashing lights, and two external hard
drives - floor units, each
I don't feel so old anymore. I thought everyone on this list, going back to
the HC list, was a teenager or worse. Shows what cultural influences can do to
you.
I am only 65.
Craig
-Original Message-
From: Francis Nugent Dixon
To: use-livecode
Sent: Fri, Apr 29, 2016 1:52 pm
Sub
Interesting enough, I am trying to fill the gaps in my programming knowledge.
For this, I bought a not too old desktop computer and have set up this
computer only for learning programming.
Hopefully, finally I will learn how to make DLLs for my older versions of MC
and RR.
After that, using the m
Erik Beugelaar wrote:
> For who it may concern... (I am 49...;-)
>
> Adrian Kosmaczewski destroys any concerns you may have about becoming
> an older developer (19 minute read): http://bit.ly/1qWJy53
Good find, Erik. Thanks.
We see a similar pattern with entrepreneurship in general. Once we l
54 and loving it!
Richmond.
On 29.04.2016 08:43, Erik Beugelaar wrote:
For who it may concern... (I am 49...;-)
Adrian Kosmaczewski destroys any concerns you may have about becoming an
older developer (19 minute read): http://bit.ly/1qWJy53
Have a nice day!
Erik
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Hi Erik,
Thanks for sharing.
You make my day... the day of an old developer :)
Regards,
Thierry
2016-04-29 7:43 GMT+02:00 Erik Beugelaar :
> For who it may concern... (I am 49...;-)
>
> Adrian Kosmaczewski destroys any concerns you may have about becoming an
> older developer (19 minute rea
and what about starting your career in 1978, writing software in assembler
on punch cards, for a machine with only 1 12 bits accumulator and 2 index
registers ?
Best
> For who it may concern... (I am 49...;-)
>
> Adrian Kosmaczewski destroys any concerns you may have about becoming an
> older dev
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