On Thursday 09 November 2006 19:19, Doug McGarrett wrote:
At 09:46 PM 11/9/2006 -0500, Ken Jennings wrote:
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On Thursday 09 November 2006 21:25, James Knott wrote:
Darryl Gregorash wrote:
On 09/11/06 06:59, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Thursday 2006-11-09 at 06:55 -0500, James Knott wrote:
Try to buy anyone's Pascal. It appears to be a dead language these
days.
There is a gnu version of pascal, and there is also "Free Pascal" ( http://www.freepascal.org/). Then, there is also Lazarus (http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/), that emulates Delphi.
When I code something, I do it in Pascal.
I thought real programmers write code at the command line: in DOStalk, copy con filename.exe
No, real programmers write directly to punch cards, using only their pen knife. ;-)
No, no, no. Real programmers use a bent paper clip to punch holes in paper tape. But they only do that when they're too lazy to flip the switches by hand on their Altairs.
I love it! You guys should go on the Letterman show, or something. But I must tell you that I kept a 4" diameter roll of paper tape, punched on a model 35, for over 30 years, in my desk, thinking it might come in handy someday. Of course, it never did, and when I retired, I threw it out. OTOH, I once went to a seminar where switch programming was demonstrated. When computing was a baby, you really could do it yourself. I bet most of the pioneers once had a Commodore. Altho the richer ones probably had a Radio Shack. Remember them? The company I worked for then had a bunch of secretaries typing in manuals on TRS-80's. (I think that was the number.) I guess that was even before CPM, altho not by an awful lot.
This is going way OT, but the TRS-80 was CPM, IIRC. Here's mine, which is still on my desk... http://www.perfectreign.com/stuff/trs80_level1_4kb-sm.jpg ...thought it isn't powered up. :) On topic, I have thought about it and plan to stick with SUSE at least until someone tells me a really valid reason I should yank it. Yeah, I see the ethical choice, but there's no pratical reason at the moment. -- kai www.perfectreign.com || www.4thedadz.com a turn signal is a statement, not a request