<html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type">
</head>
<body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 28/09/13 05:18, Clyde E. Kunkel
wrote:<br>
</div>
<blockquote cite="mid:5245BDE4.4050507@verizon.net" type="cite">On
09/27/2013 01:05 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">On Fri, 2013-09-27 at 22:06 +1200, Gavin
Flower wrote:
<br>
<snip>
<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
I do find the 'who's been
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">using computers longer?' competitions that
seem to be ensuing on all
<br>
sorts of lists lately a bit tiresome :)
<br>
<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
Why tiresome? It is a bit interesting. Way better than some of
the vitriol showing up on the lists. I remember programming a
RemRand steel drum memory computer using a teletype and punched
paper tape. I also remember seeing a U-2 in use running a single
application (civilian payroll) at a Navy facility.
<br>
<br>
None used Fedora.
<br>
<br>
</blockquote>
<font size="-1">Yes,it great to find not everyone here is a
"Johny-Come<font size="-1">-La</font>tel<font size="-1">y</font>"</font>!
:-)<br>
<br>
Some people start programming young these days! I'm coaching an 11
year old in Java, he has his own Linux box. He got into Java by
himself when he was 10, despite neither of his parents being in IT.
His mother is a friend of my wife's, and he suddenly phoned up in
February asking if I could help him. I have introduced him to
PostgreSQL & SQL, and later I think I will also get him into C
and other languages. I was 18 before I had a chance to write
programs - I think he will better than I ever was, before he is 18!<br>
<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
Gavin<br>
</body>
</html>