Elvis has left the building.
When I first got to Memphis almost 30 years ago my wife worked by former friends of E. I learned a lot about the guy listening to them talk about how Elvis would just be the cool friend. Only had a little more money than everyone else and didn't let that get in the way.
The description the blog follow up had sounded close to what the man was like. If you liked to sing, my wife is a diva so I heard a lot of those stories, he would have worked with friends and family getting opinions on what was right as well as what needed to be fixed in a song. Or just sing with everyone as long as they could through the night.
That being said he worked his craft like we read about Edison because at that time he was making or rewriting music theory.
On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 1:51 PM, Ted Roche tedroche@gmail.com wrote:
If we're talking about choices in programming languages, we ought to point out that there's more than one type of programmer, too:
https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-two-types-of-programmers/
https://blog.codinghorror.com/mort-elvis-einstein-and-you/
"There's 10 kinds of people in the world, those who understand binary, and those who don't"
On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 2:44 PM, Stephen Russell srussell705@gmail.com wrote:
Alan I took to C# from the get go so I don't consider it an issue for me but a good point to be aware of.
On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 1:30 PM, Alan Bourke alanpbourke@fastmail.fm wrote:
Except it does matter if the frameworks and tooling don't support VB, for example in the next Asp.Net
-- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm
On Mon, 20 Jun 2016, at 06:55 PM, Laurie Alvey wrote:
If you're using .NET, then it doesn't really matter - it all ends up
with
the sane CLR.
Laurie
On 20 June 2016 at 18:33, Kurt Wendt Kurt_Wendt@globetax.com wrote:
DARN - I hate when this happens. I type an e-mail reply - but,
forget
to
send it - and have other windows in front of it. So - now - 3 days
later -
I see I didn't send it! So - here goes...
I totally agree with you Alan.
Funny thing is - a while ago - they were a purely VB shop. Then -
some
of
the systems folks here started having an argument about what to
develop in.
The CTO then put out the word via e-mail, re:VB vs. C#. Which then
had
more
people arguing. So - then he called a meeting of the entire systems
dept. -
like about 30 people - and we argued in a conference room. Kinda
funny
since one guy says this other guy in the group had ALREADY been
doing
coding in C# - when we were supposed to be a VB shop. So - in the
end
- the
CTO decided to let Each Programmer decide what they would prefer to
code
in. So - now we are officially a 2 language shop!
:-)
Regards, Kurt Wendt Senior Systems Analyst
Tel. +1-212-747-9100 www.GlobeTax.com
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Alan
Bourke Sent: Friday, June 17, 2016 2:40 PM To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: [NF] Which Programming Language Should I Learn?
Make it C# would be my opinion.
-- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm
On Fri, 17 Jun 2016, at 06:21 PM, Kurt Wendt wrote:
Yeah - I started on an Apple II doing BASIC in 1980. Dabbled in
BASIC
for years - then 'fell in love' with TurboPascal.
I'm still doing VFP. But, at my job - they are Pushing me
Seriously
to
get on-board w/.Net - and either learn VB or C#.
So - I gotta get crackin' and start watching some video tutorials
and get my head wrapped around a new language...
Regards, Kurt Wendt Senior Systems Analyst
Tel. +1-212-747-9100 www.GlobeTax.com
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Of
John R. Sowden Sent: Friday, June 17, 2016 1:16 PM To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: [NF] Which Programming Language Should I Learn?
This is interesting. When I started with computers in 1977
(TRS-80
Model I), I was the target market for computers, software, etc.
I am
a small businessperson who invested time and energy into using
computers.
I loved it! Now, I am not recognized at all. Either I use canned software (gnucash, a quicken wanna be), an Office Program (Libre Office), etc. or I am a "developer" earning a living writing code
for
others.
Neither apply. I have been writing in dBASE II, dBXL, Foxbase, FoxPro/DOS (Visual Foxpro 5.0, never worked (not enough memory
error
with more than enough memory)). Now I am trying Pure Basic. I
wonder
what happened to the rest of us.
John
On 06/17/2016 09:54 AM, Gene Wirchenko wrote: > At 09:18 2016-06-17, Alan Bourke alanpbourke@fastmail.fm
wrote:
>> With added Lord Of The Rings comparisions. >> >>
http://carlcheo.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/which-programming-la
>> ng uage-should-i-learn-first-infographic.png >> > > It made for a break from all the
shooting-yourself-in-the-foot
> comparisons. > > Sincerely, > > Gene Wirchenko > >
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