7 Jan
2014
7 Jan
'14
4:50 p.m.
On Jan 7, 2014, at 7:24 PM, Peter Corlett <abuse at cabal.org.uk> wrote:
On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 07:45:30PM +0000, Tony Duell
wrote:
[...]
Or they might be people like me ? I?ve been a professional programmer for 40 years and I?m
most likely to type ?python? when I need to do some quick calculation. But I also keep a
slide rule in my office. (Also an abacus ? but unfortunately that one is still only
decoration, I have not yet learned how to use it.)
paul
I am told by a friend who works for a banking
company in the City of London
(anthough not as a banker) that HP12Cs are very common in such estalishments.
Actually,m it's not uncommon to see a cashier or manager in a high street
bank with an HP12C on their desk.
And yet I wrote some share trading software for a City firm and didn't see one
anywhere in the office. Microsoft Excel was pretty popular, though. Aren't
anecdotes wonderful?
I suspect the difference is that your friend's office is mainly full of baby
boomers who figured out how to use a HP-12C to do their job back in the day,
and now don't want to learn how to do it on one of those newfangled computer
thingies.