Re: [Nolug] One Weekend Messing With Perl

On 12/21/08 13:17, Mark A. Hershberger wrote:
> Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes:
>
>> On 12/21/08 11:37, Dennis J Harrison Jr wrote:
>>> http://www.xkcd.com/519/
>>>
>>> I am sure there is a similar situation that is true for most of us, eh?
>> Except for those of us who grew up before the Internet.
>
> Ron, I've no idea how old you are (I only ever made it to one NOLUG
> meeting and that was eons ago), but I graduated from high school “before
> the Internet” in 1991.

The focus of the comic was Perl, not general programming.

> When I was 13, in the 80s, I wrote and sold my first program. A simple
> little report generator that helped my Dad with some repetitive tasks as
> a QA manager. In high school, my parents made me get a job to pay off
> the phone bill. They got tired of paying long distance bills as high as
> $300 in one month.

Yay, let's have a pissing match!!!

> It wasn't till my sophomore year of college that I got a real email
> address. It wasn't until my senior year of college that the Internet
> and web browsers really began to take off.

uucp was the thing when I graduated. But our Uni was too mainframe-
orinted to have an Internet connection.

> Heck, people like Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, and Bill Joy (who, iirc,
> wrote VI in high school) grew up long before I did and they managed to
> find things to dink with on the weekends when they were in high school
> that were far more valuable than high school trig lessons.

I bet Woz and Joy did pretty good in Math class, so what's you're point?

As far as Gates, WTF cares? He was never a really good programmer
anyway.

-- 
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA
I like my women like I like my coffee - purchased at above-market
rates from eco-friendly organic farming cooperatives in Latin America.
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