Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 17:31:02 01/02/03
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On January 02, 2003 at 20:25:58, Russell Reagan wrote: >On January 02, 2003 at 19:34:49, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>Look how LAZY Windows programming has made us! >>Real programmers don't even need an editor. They just redirect the console to a >>file and type in the program directly. And they don't need an HLL either. They >>type in the assembly language opcodes (no Macro assembler either -- that's >>cheating.) Real programmers think in hex. >> >>Real programmers don't need IDE's or debuggers or any of that stuff. Especially >>not any sort of syntactic suger like C++ and things of that ilk. >> >>We have really gotten soft since the old days. > >Windows? Editor? Console? HLL? Hex? IDE? Debugger? C++? I just have a keyboard >with three keys...1, 0, and "go". It kind of sucks having to rewrite a web >browser everytime I want to read CCC, but that's the price you pay for being a >real programmer I guess. > >One down side is that when you apply for a job and they ask how many words you >can type per minute, the number is drastically reduced, since a "word" to me is >16 key entries, instead of 5 for the wimps. <SARCASTIC_IRONY> The next generation of Windows will do away with the keyboard entirely. Everything will be accomplished using the mouse and some guy named "Bob" who will help you along the way. Since the grand global plan was to turn us all into helpless, hopeless, brainless jellyfish (and since the plan was more successful than their wildest expectations) we can soon expect that it will take 1000 mouse clicks to do anything on a computer. </SARCASTIC_IRONY>
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