Re: [Nolug] One Weekend Messing With Perl

On 12/21/08 18:33, Mark A. Hershberger wrote:
[snip]
>
> Perhaps I'm just seeing in the XKCD cartoon what I want to see, but my
> experience with elementary through high school was that it did not
> stretch my mind. It was dull and boring.

I guess that's one benefit of private school...

> Those weekend and summer
> programming projects were a challenge and a chance to explore —

All I got to do during the summer (after a two week vacation) was
work in a hot warehouse.

> something that the schools I attended didn't offer much of – projects
> that were much more valuable for my future than the busy work that fills
> much of the day in the average school.
>
> (And, no, life doesn't just revolve around work and school sometimes
> introduces children to things they might not be exposed to otherwise.)

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA
I like my women like I like my coffee - purchased at above-market
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