On (26 Dec 94) Roy McNeill wrote to Keith Richardson...



 RM> Hi Keith (sorry re delay, but the system encourages it )



 RM>  On (12 Dec 94) Keith Richardson wrote to Bob Lawrence...



 KR> sounds a great hobby, and a good way to learn vb. i always reckoned

 RM> the

 KR> way to learn a language was to find a project that you really want to

 KR> do, and write the program to do it.



 RM> For self-learning, I agree. Usually works fine on me.



thats how i started programming - an sds-900, a fortran ref manual, lots

of paper tape, a desire to calculate my weekly wage under the space

tracking award, and lots of spare time.



 KR> i am doing the same thing with c++

 KR> and owl to write a windows prog, the learning curve is so steep that i

 KR> think that i need a rope and pitons.  )-8



 RM> Agreed again - I wanna write the pc user interface (DripTalk) for

 RM> my evolving sprinkler controller (Drip) in BC++Win, but the

 RM> learning curve cut so deep that I'm currently using a bad mixture

 RM> of dos based libraries, because I wanna get the thing running

 RM> before the second coming.



yearh, i've got several tens of megabytes of dos "interface libraries",

all do part of the job but win/owl seem to do it all - if only it wasn't

so fucking complex to an old linear programmer. have you thought of

turbo-vision, it seems to do most things, and you can stay out of the

dreaded windows environment.



                        Keith



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