"Charles Hottel" <chottel@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> "Pete Dashwood" <dashwood@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>>
>> "Howard Brazee" <howard@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>> news:8i9gs35ki31cu5831ei1o40tf75tfouls9@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:48:52 +1300, "Pete Dashwood"
>>> <dashwood@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>
>>>>Nope. You are woefully out of touch. The tools we have now can be used
>>>>to
>>>>build better tools. The days of telling computers what to do, line by
>>>>line,
>>>>are definitely numbered. We don't need to and it is far too expensive
to
>>>>do
>>>>so. Who codes in assembler any more? No need to. Why don't we? It's
the
>>>>same
>>>>argument.
>>>
>>> But My Way is right. Those young whippersnappers who don't see
>>> things my way will suffer for their heresy.
>>
>> Not sure if you're aiming that at me or at Judson, Howard :-)
>>
>> If at me, all I can say is, while I firmly believe what I wrote, I
don't
>> see it as Holy Writ and I certainly wouldn't want to punish anyone who
>> disagrees.
>>
>> (Except maybe that Gunshannon guy who doesn't believe in positronic
>> brains... yeah... we'll put him on the list...Linux lover... he needs
to
>> be cast into the Lake of Fire... Come the Day.... mumble... rant...)
>>
>> Pete.
>> --
>> "I used to write COBOL...now I can do anything."
>>
>
> Said the guy who believes only web applications are chic and desktop
apps
> are so yesterday ;-)
Charlie, that is so unfair.
I said I find desktop (and any kind of non-networked, so that would
include
most legacy mainframe apps.) to be quaint.
That doesn't mean I won't write them, or develop them. Neither does it
mean
I would punish anyone who disagreed with me...:-)
As for things being "yesterday", that is a fa****on statement and I never
made it.
Web applications are simply more useful in a world where the Web is
becoming
more ubiquitous and bringing computer power to everybody.
I really don't care what is chic and what is yesterday; I definitely care
about what is useful.
Pete.
--
"I used to write COBOL...now I can do anything."
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