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Re: [PLUG] Educational Languages
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On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 01:10:20PM -0400, Mark M. Hoffman wrote:
> * 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.
>
Regarding the soft and lazy nature of modern editors, some of you may
not have been keeping up with your mandatory weekly reading of this
gem: http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed.msg.html
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