On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 13:04, B.J. McClure wrote: ..........snip........ > Btw, I am most impressed with the time and quality of support > furnished by members of this list and others. When will the world > learn that cooperation is the answer? > > Rock on Linux, and old farts too. > > Cheers,bj OK I've got to join this p...... contest. I turn 68 this year, and learned programming in 1959 on an IBM 704 (the hottest iron of that year). I got into unix with AT&T version 6 (on a PDP-11) so long ago I can't even remember what year that was. I was a lone voice in the wilderness then. The rest of the lab (BNL) was Fortran for applications, machine language for operating systems. Making the Fortran->C transformation without anyone to ask a question of, was pretty challenging. And speaking of the hippie o/s, did you ever wonder how the internet ended up without a central controlling authority? Because it was designed by some almost hippie grad students back in the 60s/70s. -- Graham Campbell <gc1111@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
