Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: dvus Newsgroups: sci.physics Subject: Re: The Case For Quick Basic In The 21st Century. Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 08:11:20 -0500 Lines: 55 Message-ID: References: <8v30ic-82e.ln1@mail.specsol.com> <1ugr4bp5uso6kuid4h2q6u3jqk06e5kk6p@4ax.com> <9gh1ic-34j.ln1@mail.specsol.com> <3ih4ic-c5.ln1@mail.specsol.com> <8dg9ic-b1h.ln1@mail.specsol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net wbGo1gvA0zMj20/WZQFguAeKvrlfOHw/mF6QBOJF3Zsygy5Gix Cancel-Lock: sha1:SYo+PqKxYLMoTqO7PPFG59yo8Ws= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 In-Reply-To: <8dg9ic-b1h.ln1@mail.specsol.com> Xref: csiph.com sci.physics:534759 On 11/22/2015 2:07 PM, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote: > dvus wrote: >> On 11/21/2015 2:02 PM, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote: >>> dvus wrote: >>>> On 11/20/2015 4:56 PM, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote: >>>>> dvus wrote: >>>>>> On 11/20/2015 12:47 PM, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote: >>>>>>> dvus wrote: >>>>>>>> On 11/20/2015 2:22 AM, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> I don't know who 'M$' is; is this an attempt to be funny? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=M%24 >>>>>>>> Are you laughing yet? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Puerile; no. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I have seen Microsloth from other puerile posters. >>>>>> >>>>>> Spoil-sport! >>>>> >>>>> I've always thought things like that were childish and branded the >>>>> users of such as bigots; yes there are software bigots. >>>> >>>> If I were such a bigot I'd be using Linux or OS X. I started with >>>> Commodore and moved to M$ when the Amiga became somewhat obsolete. >>> >>> My first toy computer was a MITS 8080 kit, my second an Apple II. >>> >>> In the day job I was dealing with VMS, RSTS, RT-11, and SunOS on >>> various platforms. >>> >>> I always concidered the PC a toy until usefull applications appeared. >>> >>> Today's consumer computers are appliances to run applications. >> >> OK, what's wrong with that? > > Nothing. > > Why do you jump to the conclusion that it must be a negative statement? > > And you did notice the word 'consumer', didn't you? > > Today 84% of US households own a computer and 73% have a computer with > a broadband connection to the internet. > > What do you suppose those numbers would be if there were no applications > and all you could do is write BASIC? I don't know. Besides, who wants that? -- dvus