-=> mark lewis wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

 TL> Bit late for that decision, methinks. :D

 ml> hahaha... i know that feeling...

Oh well, I can always try, I guess.  See how much comes back to me.  Of course,
there's also a lot of new stuff to consider, like there was no socket
programming back when I was doing it, and all that GUI stuff, though I'm more
interested in daemons and text based stuff, maybe a little DSP.  At least on
Linux, I wouldn't be needing a GUI application.

 ml> i hear ya... i got into programming for various reasons... one was
 ml> having to code for my own hardware developments... then the hardware
 ml> became more like a toaster and i was not able to continue designing
 ml> hardware as i had been doing... programming, though, gave me a lot more
 ml> control than i had been having... if the machine didn't do what i
 ml> wanted, i turned it off or rewrote the code to make it do what i

I initially got into programming through wanting to make the computer do things
I wanted it to do, and then I had to program for my uni studies (electrical and
electronic engineering), and coincidentally, almost all the way TP was used.  I
remember writing DOS function calls in TP3 (having to use a lot of inline
assembly language!), and even a shell to DOS function.  TP4 allowed me to write
a true TSR program. :)

 ml> wanted... one way or another, i was in control... then i found girls
 ml> and the world exploded again...

:P

 ml>> anyway, one can do almost anything that one wants to do... even
 ml>> porting code like the delphi based argus/radius/taurus FTN mailers to
 ml>> FPC/Lazarus and then working on them to remove the winwhatever
 ml>> centricities and make them crossplatform GUI FTN mailers...

 ml>> i'm aware of at least one BBS that's written in FPC and at least two
 ml>> others that are being ported over ;)

 TL> Sounds interesting.  Maybe I can beat the rust off my Pascal. ;)

 ml> funny! i've never heard it called that before 

Haha, bad move, I'd more than likely catch you. :D  One of the reasons I spend
less time playing around on computers these days is sports training, mostly
sprints. :P

 ml>> ... Sheesh! You start havin' fun, and they send the lawyers!

 TL> Typical! :)

 ml> and getting worse in this day in time :(

 TL> ... Since bread is square, then why is sandwich meat round?

 ml> how about square meat on round bread? ;)

Any combination is possible. :P

 ml> )\/(ark

 ml> Always Mount a Scratch Monkey

 ml> ... Some call me the gangster of love.

I call BULLSHIT! :D :P 



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