Post #244,319
2/12/06 3:29:48 PM
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I've got no Mac (yet?)
How about something that runs on the inferior OS?
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Post #244,325
2/12/06 4:22:21 PM
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squeak.org
"Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect" --Mark Twain
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein
"This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." --George W. Bush
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Post #244,328
2/12/06 5:19:59 PM
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Python?
I'm the most unprogrammerish person in the world, and even I can get stuff done with that.
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Post #244,443
2/13/06 6:27:52 PM
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I've seen Python and Squeak
They are both fine tools, but you know, Peter - youre emphatically _not_ "the most unprogrammerish person in the world". You're in those damned 10% that make life harder for the rest of the humanity.
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179. I will not outsource core functions. -- [link|http://omega.med.yale.edu/~pcy5/misc/overlord2.htm|.]
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Post #244,483
2/14/06 1:44:42 AM
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I'm shocked, sir.
What 10% is that?
I'm trying to work out if I've been insulted or complimented.
Given that I have to ask, I suspect the former, in which case, bravo!
Or, as they say on the CS:S servers, "pwned"
Peter [link|http://www.no2id.net/|Don't Let The Terrorists Win] [link|http://www.kuro5hin.org|There is no K5 Cabal] [link|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org|Home] Use P2P for legitimate purposes!
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Post #244,539
2/14/06 12:07:20 PM
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The 10% who understand things like
iteration, arrays, the idea of restricted syntax, the fact that DWIM is not a command in any known computer language.
As for the rest of us - someone I know asked a user to input a list of things into Word using Tab as separator. The user did what she was told, but she used spaces. When asked how the hell the computer should distinguish between the spaces that separate groups and the spaces inside groups, she smiled.
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Post #244,540
2/14/06 12:09:17 PM
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I've seen that smile
It's usually followed by, "The same way I do, it looks at them."
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Post #244,541
2/14/06 12:13:45 PM
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The worst part is, she is righ.
In most cases, it's possible to figure out that she uses more than one space to separate groups. But _she_ would be utterly incapable of writing the ad-hoc code that does it.
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Post #244,992
2/16/06 2:09:11 PM
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DWIM?!?
Driving While Intoxicated, Mostly?
jb4 "Every Repbulican who wants to defend Bush on [the expansion of Presidential powers], should be forced to say, 'I wouldn't hesitate to see President Hillary Rodham Clinton have the same authority'." &mdash an unidentified letter writer to Newsweek on the expansion of executive powers under the Bush administration
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Post #244,994
2/16/06 2:13:24 PM
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do what I meant
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