SemiOT: Mourning for Classic Computing

From: Douglas Quebbeman <dhquebbeman_at_theestopinalgroup.com>
Date: Tue Aug 14 06:32:20 2001

> >Also, not every programmer produced from personal computing is a bad
> >programmer. I've seen quite a number of such people that should be
> >forbidden from ever invoking a text editor, but we're not all that way.
> >I may not have a lot of field experience (I'm not even out of college
> >yet), but I'm a damn good programmer.
>
> As Iggy mentioned a bit ago, Demo programmers still practice
> assembler. I would imagine that there are quite a few talented
> programmers in that field.

I do not mind that programmers vote Democratic...

Seriously, what's a demo programmer? A programmer who writes
only demo software? As in mock-ups? Prototypes?

And I hate to pick nits, but no one can "practice assembler"
anymore than they can "practice compiler".

They _write_ assembly language; if it must be shortened, it
should be to "assembly", not "assembler".

But if I'm stumbling into a British usage vs. American usage,
please forgive me, I pick nits, but prefer not to be an errant
pedant.

And I would not consider people writing in assembly language
to be at the bottom rungs, at least not by virture of the
language they're using. In fact, I am locally renknowned as
one of if not the best assembly language programmer available
(again, locally). Too bad the demand has dried up.

Regards,
-dq
Received on Tue Aug 14 2001 - 06:32:20 BST