Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "3899jk" <3899jk@gmail.com> Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Which Books Can You Recommend For Learning Computer Programming? Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2016 20:24:03 +1000 Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: <1169926522.482082008.403209.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <1461964954.482099422.669856.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <5fputc-ia3.ln1@sambook.reistad.name> <558344898.482428930.549633.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net nykmqlTzdT+ZGb8qUZHgRwNwPGkG3DvaYjRpYP+FS0otlJ5rw= Cancel-Lock: sha1:Wq+MAcf5YzdSOIF1r0wlKL40ATE= In-Reply-To: X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 14.0.8117.416 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V14.0.8117.416 Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:162793 "Michael Black" wrote in message news:alpine.LNX.2.02.1604151420370.17695@darkstar.example.org... > On Fri, 15 Apr 2016, Peter Flass wrote: > >> Walter Bushell wrote: >>> In article , >>> "J. Clarke" wrote: >>> >>>> No, helicopter parenting and parental fear of the big bad world does >>>> that. I suspect that in the modern world my parents would have been >>>> arrested for letting me do the sorts of things that I and my friends >>>> did. I suspect that if they knew, _they_ would have been horrified. >>> >>> Good thing they didn't find out then. Small children need to do things >>> that would horrify there parents for normal development. Many adults >>> completely forget their childhood, apparently. >>> >> >> I Remember well, I often marvel that I'm still alive, etc. >> > That's the adult in you speaking, we probably were safe back then. I know we weren't.