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Re: [PLUG] Educational Languages
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* W. Chris Shank <shankwc@acetechgroup.com> [2007-03-21 11:40:15 -0400]:
> Kids today are spoiled - they have it too easy - <grumble grumble> In my day
> we had to program in C using vi while walking uphill AND in the rain! And we
> didn't have compiler's either - we wrote our own byte code! Why, we had to
> pop our own stack back then. <grumble grumble> Ah - the good old days of 8
> bit computing...
Oh, we used to *dream* of editing in vi! Would have been an IDE to us!
We used to write programs by running 'cat | gunzip > foo' at the prompt
and then typing in compressed opcodes!
Regards,
PS: props to Monty Python, of course...
http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~gtg385h/habitual_lying.html
PPS: This message was composed using vi; I've grown soft in my old age.
--
Mark M. Hoffman
mhoffman@lightlink.com
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