On 30-Mar-03 at 12:17 Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
This may sound harsh, but what is your favorite
programming language?
It would be an excellent exercise for learning some programming.
Yes, it is harsh, and such a statement is of absolutely no use to me since there are
plenty of other things I have chosen to devote my time and energy to.
I am, first and foremost, a hardware hack. I have a ton of respect for all the folks who
have chosen to be code jockeys, but pesonally, I'm far happier with a soldering iron
in one hand and a schematic in the other. Typing and debugging code all day, beyond the
few scripts and config files I use to keep my 'net presence alive and well, would
drive me nuts in less than a week.
In short; I will do it if I have no other way to accomplish my goal. However, I will
always search for a pre-written alternative (yes, I buy stuff from shareware authors)
before I think about rolling my own.
Fortunately, a number of other list users have offered outstandingly helpful pointers
(thanks, troops!) As it turns out, it's not an odd-even split I need; It's
high-byte/low-byte split. I'm still digging, and I find I often learn more along the
way than I would if I sat down and started coding.
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Bruce Lane, Owner & Head Hardware Heavy,
Blue Feather Technologies --
http://www.bluefeathertech.com
ARS KC7GR (Formerly WD6EOS) since 12-77 -- kyrrin(a)bluefeathertech.com
"I'll get a life when someone demonstrates that it would be superior
to what I have now..." (Taki Kogoma, aka Gym Z. Quirk)