On Tuesday 29 Sep 2009 03:32:50 John E. Perry wrote:
Will Stephenson wrote:
On Thursday 24 September 2009 07:01:12 David C. Rankin wrote:
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For the right person, with intimate knowledge of the code base this was quick and efficient. (I didn't say easy). For Joe Random Hacker, it would be a total mess.
...lots of fascinating and encouraging stuff...
So I'm really happy you took the time to try the tutorial - I hope it is less shocking to you now, and you stick at it.
Dave, thanks for being an enthusiastic and dedicated user.
Will, thanks yet again for being an educational and tolerant developer.
John Perry, an enthusiastic :-), but not a dedicated :-(, user.
(...I wonder if I could make better headway with Ruby than I did with C++. Tcl/Tk was pretty easy, but I don't use its object-oriented facilities...)
...an old assembly-language, FORTRAN, C, and Pascal programmer...
+1 . It has to be said a LOT more devs could do with taking a leaf out of this book .. Pete .