From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Unix source code archive in the news
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2018 16:34:01 +1100 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.1810081627550.66838@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4936B4CF-62EA-4D98-8B82-200F7D8581B4@jctaylor.com>
On Sun, 7 Oct 2018, William Corcoran wrote:
> Half the programmers in this world could not code themselves out of a
> brown paper bag. Sounds more like a software sewer than a great work of
> art.
These days, anyone who can do VB etc can call themselves a programmer; in
my day, you had to know PDP-11 or VAX assembler... Or Z-80...
-- Dave (An ROF, i.e. a Retired Old Fart)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-08 5:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-07 0:00 Nelson H. F. Beebe
2018-10-07 0:07 ` Nigel Williams
2018-10-07 0:55 ` William Corcoran
2018-10-07 1:28 ` Andy Kosela
2018-10-08 5:34 ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
2018-10-08 5:55 ` Steve Nickolas
2018-10-09 23:02 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-10-10 0:11 ` Cornelius Keck
2018-10-07 1:04 Noel Chiappa
2018-10-07 4:08 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2018-10-07 4:56 ` jsteve
[not found] <mailman.1.1538877601.18358.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2018-10-07 2:31 ` Paul McJones
2018-10-07 11:23 Noel Chiappa
2018-10-07 11:48 ` arnold
2018-10-08 10:03 ` Tony Finch
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