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Roger L. Costello scripsit: > BTW John, I really liked your paradigm shift on the telephone operator story. > Can you think of a similar shift with programming? /Roger Yes, in fact. Perhaps ten years ago, I was sitting next to a stranger on the New York to Boston shuttle. In casual conversation, she asked me what I did. "I'm a computer programmer", said I. She said, not unusually, "Oh, I don't know anything about programming", but then added in the same breath "except for some Excel and Basic." I had an epiphany: the world had changed. (I felt similarly when I first saw the URL on a bottle of Snapple.) -- You escaped them by the will-death John Cowan and the Way of the Black Wheel. jcowan@r... I could not. --Great-Souled Sam http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
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