OK, Here's the Deal--We're Rich--and our job is to get RICHER!
We can't do that if we're getting all gushy about something that's gonna happen 20 years after we're dead!
If you're not rich, you're SUPPOSED to be EITHER one of our barely paid slaves or our (NOT RICH but) Well off Customers--so, like Climate Change ain't your concern, Either.
Now, it's time for EVERYBODY to get back to work. SLAVES! Get back to work making shit for us to sell or you won't get your rice and cabbage water this week! CUSTOMERS! Buy the shit we're making and quit bitching about Commie-pinko shit like Pollution, Climate Change, or Labor Practices. THat ain't your part of the deal.
In LISP we used (gc) to round up the trash and delete it.
On HP-3000 you could expressly define a file as,TEMP and it would delete itself.
SO, GOOGLE, Shit I was using in the 1980's before Sergey and Larry were driving cars is now patented by GOOGLE.
I don't blame GOOGLE--I blame a borken patent system.
You can't jail him--but you can bankrupt him and leave him destitute and homeless to freeze to death in the street.
Seems like the Government wins either way.
For now, "interesting" is anything that pays money.
If your paying job is dull--join a open source project for fun.
Now, If anybody has any Interesting PAYING JOBS, Please let me know.
Stubby.
Because there are more lines of _working_ COBOL code running the in the background of world's business systems than there are dollars (and possibly pennies) in the U.S. National Debt.
Replacing all that working code isn't going to be like replacing a flat tire on a car--it's going to be like re-designing all the tires in the world to something that's not round and not made of rubber.
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OK, Here's the Deal--We're Rich--and our job is to get RICHER!
We can't do that if we're getting all gushy about something that's gonna happen 20 years after we're dead!
If you're not rich, you're SUPPOSED to be EITHER one of our barely paid slaves or our (NOT RICH but) Well off Customers--so, like Climate Change ain't your concern, Either.
Now, it's time for EVERYBODY to get back to work.
SLAVES! Get back to work making shit for us to sell or you won't get your rice and cabbage water this week!
CUSTOMERS! Buy the shit we're making and quit bitching about Commie-pinko shit like Pollution, Climate Change, or Labor Practices. THat ain't your part of the deal.
OK!
I know Tracy. This is why I still play Empire. :-)
And occasionally WARP.
YEAH, But Perl can do it 500 different ways and all of them are pretty much unreadable.
In LISP we used (gc) to round up the trash and delete it. On HP-3000 you could expressly define a file as ,TEMP and it would delete itself.
SO, GOOGLE, Shit I was using in the 1980's before Sergey and Larry were driving cars is now patented by GOOGLE.
I don't blame GOOGLE--I blame a borken patent system.
The Media (such as NPR counts as The Media) is just now figuring this (#)%@ out? Regular buncha @)(%)@% Sherlock Homies, ain't ya?
I ran into a DOZEN or so COBOLers. All but me were AARP members--I still got a year before AARP sends me my enrollment kit.
You can't jail him--but you can bankrupt him and leave him destitute and homeless to freeze to death in the street. Seems like the Government wins either way.
For now, "interesting" is anything that pays money. If your paying job is dull--join a open source project for fun. Now, If anybody has any Interesting PAYING JOBS, Please let me know. Stubby.
Why alive?
Because there are more lines of _working_ COBOL code running the in the background of world's business systems than there are dollars (and possibly pennies) in the U.S. National Debt.
Replacing all that working code isn't going to be like replacing a flat tire on a car--it's going to be like re-designing all the tires in the world to something that's not round and not made of rubber.