On Sat, 28 Apr 2018 18:50:38 +0100
Richard Kettlewell  wrote:

> Sounds appalling. It’s not 1980 any more.

Gareth wants to still do things the way they did forty years ago,
including attaching blinkenlights to a Pi, presumably so he can modify
registers using buttons on the front panel.  He can't accept that the
world and its technology has moved on, because his brain is stuck in
that mode,
I admit that I had problems getting my head around Java when I had
previously mainly programmed in C (and didn't like C++ at all -
Smalltalk was good though, and ADA's not bad for an old chick).  But
then I had difficulty with Fortran when I had previously only used Basic
(where are the line numbers???). You adapt and learn to use appropriate
tools, you don't unplug an angle grinder and try to use it as a file.

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