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.
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