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On 12/19/2024 9:39 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
> On 12/19/2024 07:57 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>> On 12/19/2024 9:53 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
>> ...
>>> It's mind-boggling that for hundreds of years at
>>> least there were printed books, mass-printed or
>>> since the invention of printing presses and movable
>>> type, and that for at least 150 years there's been
>>> photography, for where the graphical renditions
>>> were painting or drawing, or statuary or what,
>>> that since about 25 years ago there are small-screen
>>> full-motion high-resolution displays, each different
>>> yet all same, yet of course it is still in a sense
>>> pixels, blits, drawing primitives, and sprites,
>>> vis-a-vis the procedural and high-level procedural,
>>> sadly an entire generation is myopic and reading has
>>> suffered, I think screens should be banned for youth,
>>> so they have to learn how to read to get their giggles,
>>> though that's impractical, point being that somebody
>>> needs to know the entire stack of the things at
>>> least in gross detail that thusly the efforts of
>>> "make a new one", while daunting, at least have
>>> a total embarrassment of computing resources the
>>> hardware, that if all the lately bloatware and
>>> various other kinds of wares that are of no interest
>>> to the user of the device, were gone, then implementors
>>> of course can make astounding demos, and even simple
>>> entire systems that are all quite bog-standard.
>> ...
>>
>> That is all ONE sentence.  I am impressed !
>>
>> Lynn
>>
>>
> 
> When I read Stroustrup's C++ book, I read the special
> and third edition, and the great book on stdio streams,
> or Kreft and Langer, among things like Harbison and
> Steele and Schildt of course and Kernighan and Ritchie
> after C, C++, the "closure of scope" of C++ was
> the profound concept, and including exceptions -
> the semantics of constructor and destructor
> and the rule of three and these things, have
> that after gaining some facility in C, and writing
> context structs and otherwise user data,
> "C++, Third Edition", very much helped moved
> from pointers to references, though so often
> practically it's pointers. Then of course there's
> all the "Effective" of good practices and things like
> COM and ATL and what were at the time so usual
> and these days are the same.
> 
> 
> Mrs. Chapman, the seventh grade English teacher,
> made everyone demonstrate that they could
> diagram any sentence, requiring of course
> the knowledge in vocabulary the part of speech
> of each word, that, it is after Tesniere and dependency
> grammars, that languages like English, have a diagram,
> and just like other what may be larger graphs with
> edges of various meanings there is that "graph layout"
> is something that starts small yet has for Tesniere
> and dependency grammars then that something
> like Curme helps arrive at something simpler than
> Cambridge, grammar.
> 
> Yeah, sometimes it's worse, one time I put a writing
> sample into one of those grade level estimators
> and it said "grade 26", ..., whereas everybody knows
> that the newspaper is about "grade 6".
> 
> So, by seventh grade, all were expected to be able
> to diagram any sentence, and, read the paper front-to-back.
> 
> 
> https://www.wordcalc.com/readability/
> 
> 
> If you actually enjoy this then in my podcasts
> I also speak this way though unfortunately
> many "uhs" and word-stuttering of a sort.
> Sometimes computing is discussed.
> https://www.youtube.com/@rossfinlayson
> 
> 
> 
> Warm regards, warm regards

For some damn reason when I read your comments, it makes me think of the 
following song:

https://youtu.be/DgaEd5hIxzI?list=RDMMy3hf0T4qpYg

Strange! I don't know why! Wow.

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  Re: 'Graphics' of libwy Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2024-12-15 13:43 +0100
    Re: 'Graphics' of libwy wij <wyniijj5@gmail.com> - 2024-12-16 06:57 +0800
      Re: 'Graphics' of libwy Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2024-12-15 15:12 -0800
  Re: 'Graphics' of libwy David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-12-16 10:29 +0100
    Re: 'Graphics' of libwy Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2024-12-16 18:47 -0600
      Re: 'Graphics' of libwy David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-12-17 08:49 +0100
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          Re: 'Graphics' of libwy David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-12-18 08:34 +0100
  Re: 'Graphics' of libwy Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2024-12-16 18:41 -0600
    Re: 'Graphics' of libwy Paavo Helde <eesnimi@osa.pri.ee> - 2024-12-17 16:38 +0200
      Re: 'Graphics' of libwy scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2024-12-17 15:34 +0000
      Re: 'Graphics' of libwy Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org - 2024-12-17 16:02 +0000
        Re: 'Graphics' of libwy David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-12-17 17:30 +0100
          Re: 'Graphics' of libwy Paavo Helde <eesnimi@osa.pri.ee> - 2024-12-17 18:53 +0200
            Re: 'Graphics' of libwy David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-12-18 08:38 +0100
          Re: 'Graphics' of libwy Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org - 2024-12-17 16:53 +0000
            Re: 'Graphics' of libwy David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-12-18 09:09 +0100
              Re: 'Graphics' of libwy Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org - 2024-12-18 09:16 +0000
                Re: 'Graphics' of libwy David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-12-18 13:58 +0100
                Re: 'Graphics' of libwy Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org - 2024-12-18 14:07 +0000
                Re: 'Graphics' of libwy Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-12-18 13:12 -0800
                Re: 'Graphics' of libwy wij <wyniijj5@gmail.com> - 2024-12-19 10:08 +0800
                Re: 'Graphics' of libwy Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-12-18 18:29 -0800
                Re: 'Graphics' of libwy wij <wyniijj5@gmail.com> - 2024-12-19 10:51 +0800
                Re: 'Graphics' of libwy Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-12-18 20:14 -0800
                Re: 'Graphics' of libwy Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2024-12-19 16:21 -0800
                Re: 'Graphics' of libwy Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-12-19 17:07 -0800
                Re: 'Graphics' of libwy Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2024-12-19 17:38 -0800
                Re: 'Graphics' of libwy Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-12-19 18:09 -0800
                Re: 'Graphics' of libwy wij <wyniijj5@gmail.com> - 2024-12-20 11:10 +0800
                Re: 'Graphics' of libwy wij <wyniijj5@gmail.com> - 2024-12-23 02:50 +0800
                Re: 'Graphics' of libwy "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2024-12-22 15:26 -0800
                Re: 'Graphics' of libwy wij <wyniijj5@gmail.com> - 2024-12-23 14:32 +0800
                Re: 'Graphics' of libwy Muttley@dastardlyhq.com - 2024-12-23 09:59 +0000
                Re: 'Graphics' of libwy wij <wyniijj5@gmail.com> - 2024-12-25 23:51 +0800
                Re: 'Graphics' of libwy Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2024-12-19 19:53 -0800
                Re: 'Graphics' of libwy Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2024-12-19 21:57 -0600
                Re: 'Graphics' of libwy "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2024-12-19 21:01 -0800
                Re: 'Graphics' of libwy Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2024-12-19 21:39 -0800
                Re: 'Graphics' of libwy "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2024-12-19 21:48 -0800
          Re: 'Graphics' of libwy scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2024-12-17 17:08 +0000
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