high school programming & python

[Mike Fletcher]

Luxury indeed!

Why, when I was a kid, we had to trek through the wilderness for months 'til
we came to a promising looking mountain range, then we spent years digging
tiny test channels to find the ore veins, and the EPA (they're everywhen
they were/are/will be!) wouldn't let us remove the ore, so we had to search
until we found a pattern of veins that matched our programmes, then we had
to build non-polluting, wildlife-friendly energy sources to power the things
(dang EPA, I spent years building birdhouses in windmills just to get "hello
world" working), and when we wanted to debug the dang things, down on our
knees praying for tectonic shifts we were.

Ah, those were the good old days...

-----Original Message-----
From: python-list-request at cwi.nl [mailto:python-list-request at cwi.nl]On
Behalf Of Stephen J King
Sent: September 15, 1999 8:27 AM
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Subject: Re: high school programming & python


Robin Becker wrote:
> >> You were lucky to have plugboards. We had to key things in with a bunch
> >> of switches.
> >
> >Hard little metal toggle switches, too -- none of these posh molded
> >plastic rocker switches!

Luxury! When we was kids all we 'ad was old wires which we 'ad to strip
with our teeth and wrap around dirty binding posts with our bare
fingers.

--  Stephen J King    Technology Manager   Calibre Digital Pictures
--  king at calibre-dd.com               http://www.calibredigital.com