[TriLUG] Ford Drops Windows for their Sync System

[Ric Moore]

On 02/26/2014 01:36 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Feb 2014 13:02:24 -0500
> Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 02/26/2014 11:37 AM, Steve Litt wrote:
>>> On Wed, 26 Feb 2014 01:24:53 -0500
>>> Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 02/24/2014 03:29 PM, William Sutton wrote:
>>>>> Netscape -- polluted their own codebase so badly that they opened
>>>>> it up to open source developers to clean up the mess.  they
>>>>> scrapped it and made Mozilla, now Firefox, which has itself become
>>>>> a bloated mess. WordPerfect -- quality product that Novell bears
>>>>> some additional responsibility for killing
>>>>>
>>>>> I'll also toss Borland out there.  People I know who used
>>>>> Borland's compilers tell me they were superior to Microsoft...
>>>>> but Borland's long been out of that business.
>>>>
>>>> Wasn't Borland a bit pricey back when?? Ric
>>>
>>> No, the pricey part came later. Back in the 1980's Borland compilers
>>> were between $29 and $69. In the mid 1990's, which is the time this
>>> discussion pertains to, Borland compilers were, IIRC, around a
>>> hundred bucks, and in every case less than their Microsoft
>>> counterpart.
>>>
>>> Borland as a big bux wannabe big iron glass house fetish came after
>>> Microsoft had demolished the Borland business model with
>>> (innovation | antitrust).
>>>
>>> By the way, if you're at all interested in Borland, check out
>>> FreePascal and Lazarus. Both free software, both should be available
>>> with your package manager. FreePascal is pretty much a Borland
>>> Pascal workalike, and Lazarus is pretty much a Delphi workalike.
>>
>>
>> I haven't messed around with code since they took the line numbers
>> out of BASIC. <grins> Back when I was typing in games from Creative
>> Computing and struggling to get them to run on an Apple ][. Then,
>> "file sharing" became "the thing". Yoho! :) Ric
>
> Ric,
>
> You should revisit code. It's *vastly* improved. Python is a miracle
> with which you can do almost anything. C is much better these days, and
> there's much more C documentation to make it easy. Bash scripts can do
> so much with so little. I've used the bash kill command plus fifos to
> implement interprocess communication. There are all sorts of new
> languages (Haskell, Scheme and the like) that are *completely*
> different from C derived languages like Perl, Python and Ruby. A
> language called Lua is like a Comp Sci course in a download. Frameworks
> like Rails and Django make web app development easier.
>
> I don't do it because I don't have a smart phone, but today it's even
> fairly easy to make smartphone apps.
>
> Today, there's something for everyone in programming.

Ha! There you go! I was in Tech Support, since I wasn't smart enough to 
code. Especially if there were no gosub's and goto's involved. It all 
looks like "elsewhen" to me now. :) Ric



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