21 Apr
2016
21 Apr
'16
10:47 a.m.
From: Swift Griggs
Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2016 9:11 AM
I'm not saying everything was perfect in the
80's or 90's. I mean, some CS
professors in the 90's were teaching Oberon, LISP dialects, or Smalltalk.
Yes, and if you'd actually paid attention to what they were teaching you,
instead of whinging about commercial viability, you would probably be better
for it, especially the Lisp (although by the period you name, most of the fun
was gone, with Common Lisp and Scheme as the two surviving dialects).
So, no, things were never perfect, and people had to
try and do work with
Windows for Workgroups 3.11. :-)
Tell me about having to get work done on a 12K 1401, and maybe I'll listen.
In the mean time, get off my lawn, kid.
Rich
FTHI: ;-> ;-> ;-> ;->
Rich Alderson
Vintage Computing Sr. Systems Engineer
Living Computer Museum
2245 1st Avenue S
Seattle, WA 98134
mailto:RichA at LivingComputerMuseum.org
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