21 Mar
2009
21 Mar
'09
3:31 p.m.
On 21 Mar 2009 at 15:50, Jim Battle wrote:
Chuck, that was spoken like a true old-timer, but your
derision is
laughable. "Hey, you damn verilog coders, get off my lawn!"
I'm surprised, as you saw the transition from tubes to transistors to
ICs, so it shouldn't shock you that the next evolution of integration
requires just as much engineering and intelligence, although the
problems to be solved are somewhat different.
Oh, I was trying to be humorous about it. I write Verilog too; it's
fun in its own way.
I could just have easily grumbled about code bloat or not knowing how
to write machine code (not assembly, but knowing by heart the opcodes
and formats of a CPU). Or not being able to read the color codes on
6-dot mica capacitors. Or calling them capacitors instead of
condensors. Or not being able to do neat point-to-point wiring using
tie strips and waxed cable lacing. Or laying out 14 AWG busbar on
mahogany breadboards between surface-mount (meaning that they're
attached with woodscrews) components.
Times change, and all too frequently, we don't. All we can do is
grumble.
--Chuck