Re: OT: The Geek defense



"Charles Hottel" <chottel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Howard Brazee" <howard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:48:52 +1300, "Pete Dashwood"
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Nope. You are woefully out of touch. The tools we have now can be used
to
build better tools. The days of telling computers what to do, line by
line,
are definitely numbered. We don't need to and it is far too expensive to
do
so. Who codes in assembler any more? No need to. Why don't we? It's the
same
argument.

But My Way is right. Those young whippersnappers who don't see
things my way will suffer for their heresy.

Not sure if you're aiming that at me or at Judson, Howard :-)

If at me, all I can say is, while I firmly believe what I wrote, I don't
see it as Holy Writ and I certainly wouldn't want to punish anyone who
disagrees.

(Except maybe that Gunshannon guy who doesn't believe in positronic
brains... yeah... we'll put him on the list...Linux lover... he needs to
be cast into the Lake of Fire... Come the Day.... mumble... rant...)

Pete.
--
"I used to write COBOL...now I can do anything."


Said the guy who believes only web applications are chic and desktop apps
are so yesterday ;-)
Charlie, that is so unfair.

I said I find desktop (and any kind of non-networked, so that would include
most legacy mainframe apps.) to be quaint.

That doesn't mean I won't write them, or develop them. Neither does it mean
I would punish anyone who disagreed with me...:-)

As for things being "yesterday", that is a fashion statement and I never
made it.

Web applications are simply more useful in a world where the Web is becoming
more ubiquitous and bringing computer power to everybody.

I really don't care what is chic and what is yesterday; I definitely care
about what is useful.

Pete.
--
"I used to write COBOL...now I can do anything."


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