On 1/5/2012 12:02 AM, Joel Rees wrote:
[...] and typing in a FORTH interpreter in hex, by hand, and
...
Oh, never mind.
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Joel Rees
FORTH ... I hoped I would never hear that language name again. I spent a
very long night in a dive bar with a fellow programmer arguing whether
FORTH had the
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote:
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> On 1/4/2012 10:08 PM, g wrote:
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>> 'wiz kids' of today have no concept of what 'the good old days' where
>> like.
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> That may be a blessing as quite a few of the good old day were really bad
> old days.
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>> you had t
On 1/4/2012 11:43 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
But not as clever, I'll bet, as Mel, the Real Programmer:
http://foldoc.org/The+story+of+Mel,+a+Real+Programmer
Joe:
Read the link and throughly enjoyed it. And you are quite correct, I was
"not as clever" But, to be fair, I didn't pull any comparsions
On 01/04/2012 11:27 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote:
My machine code was when there was nothing else and my assembler was in
the early video games days where all you got was a 4K cartridge and most
of the time was spent trying to pack a much larger program into that
bloody cartridge. But assembler wa
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On 1/4/2012 10:08 PM, g wrote:
'wiz kids' of today have no concept of what 'the good old days' where like.
That may be a blessing as quite a few of the good old day were really
bad old days.
you had things easier than i because you worked 'mainframe' where you at
least had someone
On 01/05/2012 12:38 AM, Paul Allen Newell wrote:
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> I was there in ancient times and I'd rather have the current flood of
> information that requires much winnowing and sifting to find what is
> needed than the days of minimal info ... and the only way you stood a
> chance of getting an answ
On 1/4/2012 4:21 PM, g wrote:
i can understand. it takes time. just consider what it was like in 70's
when i started learning micro cpu's and unix, as well as others, when
there was no internet as it is today.
I was there in ancient times and I'd rather have the current flood of
information th
On 01/04/2012 11:28 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote:
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On 1/4/2012 1:36 PM, g wrote:
>> On 01/04/2012 08:22 AM, Paul Allen Newell wrote:
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>> -=-
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>> in addition to;
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>>[man|info] .
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>> have a look at;
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>>[man|info] make
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>>[man|info] bash
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>>[man|info] tcsh
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