SemiOT: Mourning for Classic Computing (Was: RE: PeeCee turns 20) [longish]
> On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Douglas Quebbeman wrote:
> >
> > And as to lusers with a little too much knowledge... yeah, they can be
> > a problem, and a LART's not always at hand...
>
> ...or worth the resulting jail time! :-)
Where on earth are LARTs illegal?!? And how did this come to pass?!?
> > Well, you won't get much disagreement from me here... but I've seen
> > COBOL code that was more spaghetti'd out than the worst BASIC I've
> > seen...
>
> BASIC is an OK starting point for someone who's destined to be a good
> programmer. Its problem is that it doesn't do enough to weed out the bad
> ones, who will then progress furthur into the trade on the false
> assumption that they have what it takes. I reference my previous post
> about assembly language... ;-D
Total agreement...
-dq
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