Re: Puppy Mastiff wants to Nip at Faces

In article <489defa6$0$19708$ecde5a14@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Paul E. Schoen <pstech@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The company I worked for at that time (EIL) wanted to be able to brag about
having a patent on some test equipment they manufactured. They paid for all
the legal fees.

I should hope, since they own the intellectual property.

You are judging my programming skills from one JavaScript application that
I was using only as an example of an on-line form, and I basically used a
simple example that I found, and expanded on it.

If you actually knew squat about programming you'd realize
that language really doesn't matter that much (with some
exceptions that do not apply here). You're blaming the
language for your lack of facility with it is pretty much
like your blaming your dog's "breed" (which you fabricated)
for your inability to train him, Janet for your
unwillingness to do your homework, and so on. The day you
take responsibility for your own shortcomings is the day it
becomes possible for you to do better, but after what we've
witnessed out of you since you first showed up I don't think
anybody is going to hold their breath.

My first programs were written in Fortran, and
then AFBIC (All Fortran Basic Interpretive Compiler), on punch cards
submitted to an IBM 7094 for batch processing. Later we used a teletype and
an acoustic modem to access a remote GE 360 computer, and my programs were
saved on strips of punched paper tape. Such was the world in 1966 to 1969.

Mine, too, Paul, and unlike you I can write software that
passes muster (you're almost certainly running some of my
code). To the extent that you're stuck in 1965, it's
entirely your own fault. 100%, utterly, and completely.

I first learned "Structured Programming" in Pascal at Towson University in
1987.

If you'd *learned* structured programming you'd have learned
how to loop through an array, something that's covered in the
first couple of weeks of an introductory data structures
course. It's more accurate to say that you took a class.
--
Melinda Shore - Software longa, hardware brevis - shore@xxxxxxxxx

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