Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!lll-winken!ubvax!igor!rutabaga!jls From: jls@rutabaga.Rational.COM (Jim Showalter) Newsgroups: comp.object Subject: Re: Syntax Change Not Paradigm Shift Message-ID: Date: 19 Apr 91 01:16:20 GMT References: <47.UUL1.3#913@acw.com> <1991Apr17.101902.1@happy.colorado.edu> Sender: news@Rational.COM Lines: 12 When *I* was growing up, we would have KILLED to have a windowless cubicle in basement. We wrote all our code on the back of matchbooks stolen from trash cans, and we had to enter it by weaving our very own core BY HAND. I hear people complaining about how they had to toggle switches: we'd have KILLED to have switches.... Apologies to Monty Python. -- * The opinions expressed herein are my own, except in the realm of software * * engineering, in which case I borrowed them from incredibly smart people. * * * * Rational: cutting-edge software engineering technology and services. *