RE: [OT] A question for programmers - Inspiration
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sven Luther [mailto:luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr]
> Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 1:18 AM
> To: Barry deFreese
> Cc: 'debian-mentors@lists.debian.org'
> Subject: Re: [OT] A question for programmers - Inspiration
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 09:30:49PM -0800, Barry deFreese wrote:
> > Thank you for the advice it is much appreciated. I should
> have gone a
> > little futher in my background. I have done quite a bit of
> > "programming". I learned FORTRAN/77, Basic on VMS, and
> Cobol on VMS in
> > college. I have written in VB, VBScript, JavaScript. In
> fact part of
> > my "job" today is writing Active Server Pages. So I have
> some of the
> > "concepts" down to a degree. I will definetely check into
> the books and
>
> You should try a functional language for a change :)))
>
> (but then, this is biased advice, i am the ocaml maintainer
> after all).
>
> Friendly,
>
> Sven Luther
>
I'm certainly not opposed to learning anything, unfortunately I was "raised"
in the M$ world and it currently pays my bills. Though I have actually
written a few RPG programs on the AS/400 also - Yuck!!! :-)
Barry deFreese
Technology Services Manager
Nike Team Sports
(949)-616-4005
Barry.deFreese@nike.com
"Technology doesn't make you less stupid; it just makes you stupid faster."
Jerry Gregoire - Former CIO at Dell
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