On (11 May 96) Paul Edwards wrote to Keith Richardson...



RS> And only droids are still running around like their arse is on fire

RS> doing the sort of thing that kids straight out of trade school do at

RS> your age too.



KR> rofl, you haven't a fucking clue what i do.



 PE> Actually, it is quite strange that you are mucking around with

 PE> big disks.  As fun as that may be, everyone I know sort of stops

 PE> doing that after a while, and moves into management,



it is possible to be in management and do techo stuff at the same time.



 PE> or process control or something.



yuk.



 PE> I have managed to keep my role to "C programmer", but in reality,

 PE> that has now become around 10% of what I do.  Actually, if the

 PE> bastard before me hadn't been a major shareholder in Informix, I

 PE> would have been doing a lot more C, but now Informix 4GL is a

 PE> large part of what I do.  And I hate proprietary languages.



personally, i dont give a shit as long as it does the job, ive used

fortran ,cobol, basic, c, rexx, clist, awk, clipper, several assemblers,

and now delphi. they all have their uses, i wouldn't like to program for

windows in iso c, i could write 10 times the amount of code in delphi in

the same time.



 PE> Actually I hate all languages that aren't C.  Even K&R C, which

 PE> the dweebs in the Unix world seem to cling on to.



they are all just dialects, including iso.



 PE> Come to think of it, I hate just about everything and everyone.



we all love you too paul.



 PE> Still, while it's 5 mins 30 seconds to get to work, I won't nail

 PE> my dog's head to the floor just yet.  I'll certainly break a few

 PE> pigeons necks though.  I was walking by Tandy and was thinking of

 PE> popping in and getting an opto-thingamebob.  I wonder if they

 PE> actually work in daylight, ie on my balcony? BFN.  Paul



have i missed something, you were winging about it taking 4 hours each

way.



                        Keith





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