On Oct 12, 2008, at 9:49 PM, bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca wrote:
...and I find
batch mode to be highly frustrating. I learned
computing in an interactive environment on terminals and I never want
to go to a batch environment, I always prefer the immediate feedback
of interaction. Sometimes even waiting for a compiled language
pisses
me off :-).
But back then ... you could go for a coffee break.
Now days you have to baby sit the computer when it reboots, after a
interactive edit under win-*insert year here*
Heh...*you* do. I don't put up with that crap; I don't have the
patience!
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL