I remember when

[ila]

Originally Posted by transjen

I think so, After all if you were a Corvette would you rather be owned and drivin by a middle aged balding over weight man or by a young sexy girl?

Jerseygirl Jen

You have a good point Jen. If I was a Corvette then definitely I would want you to be my driver.

[transjen]

Originally Posted by ila

You have a good point Jen. If I was a Corvette then definitely I would want you to be my driver.

AHH thanks[insert blush icon]


Jerseygirl Jen

Its always a quick divorce once your love becomes 'unreliable' and starts to splutter

[sesame]

I saw with bulging eyes, the first functional mother board at the institute. We ran small programs in Assembly language. And then whoosh! Assembly language is out of vogue in front of basic!

I remember when I had to push in 3 floppies one after the other in order to load Lotus123. That was before Wordstar and Excel era. I had to mention the row and column number in order to access a spot on the screen.

Then came the mouse and Windows and I was so fascinated by those new concepts. God, I was nostalgic for Lotus123. I wouldnt let it go. And GW Basic, Qbasic.... I had to work so hard to master them and suddenly they were obsolete! Damn!

[sesame]

The same sequence of events rocked the C language and Visual basic. Then I dated with Flash actionscript and Director Lingoscript for a while.
Wham, bam, thank you programmer.
They were replaced by Actionscript3.0 and better things. And I wondered,
Will I go on learning a new language or program every year?
How many languages will I have to learn in a single lifetime?
Will I be a student forever?

So I said, What the hell!
Changed gears and chucked programming all togather

And started with Animation.... And me and Annie will go on living happily everafter.

Originally Posted by sesame

The same sequence of events rocked the C language and Visual basic. Then I dated with Flash actionscript and Director Lingoscript for a while.
Wham, bam, thank you programmer.
They were replaced by Actionscript3.0 and better things. And I wondered,
Will I go on learning a new language or program every year?
How many languages will I have to learn in a single lifetime?
Will I be a student forever?

So I said, What the hell!
Changed gears and chucked programming all togather

And started with Animation.... And me and Annie will go on living happily everafter.

I am probably the same age , just didn't go through all that stuff , still haven't , you guys are the true pioneers

[sesame]

I worked with DOS in my childhood.
I started computing at the last phase of Lotus-123.
Bill Gates had not yet bought Wordstar and Excel.
Windows was yet to come. But Assembly language
& Basic were already goners.

I wonder why did they make us study obsolete languages so hard!!
Morons! What a waste of our time! We could be studying C, C++,
which were on full swing at that era! The Education Dept. is still filled with incompetent, Unimaginative people.

As soon as Bill Gates bought Excel, Wordster and launched Windows with office suite, an invisible war began to get the contenders out of the scene. So, Lotus Suite had to go. MsExcel took it's place. Wordstar became MsWord. Gates bought small programmes like Paint and what not! And DOS experts had nothing else to do but suck thumbs!

Those who stuck with DOS, Basic or C, did so only as a hobby, out of nostalgia for those fine programmes... and labeled themselves as the Old School. The "Brave New World" had no longer any room for outdated technology.

Regarding modern languages, I think Java is here to stay, C++ is still at work beneath the surface. But .Net, magnificent as it is, will be relaced by some new toy out of the sleeve of Bill Gates. He will do this to keep pace with the competition and also for earning another pile of billions. Businessmen dont like it peaceful and stagnant.