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From: Erich Foltyn on 23 Jan 2008 12:19
I am a small electronic engineer, coming from the hardware site and I am
unable to program in languages, for which people need 3 years of education
and thereafter nobody pays me anything for it (and mostly with the excuse,
that there is another language modern). Whatever you learn, they want
something else, that they need not pay you anything, because nobody needs it
really.

Years ago I could program planetary orbit calculus in BASIC until
Windows-Basic prevented me from everything. And this is always the same: The
progress destroys and makes all more difficult. First everybody could write
a letter until computers came and people needed a several months education
to write a letter. Years ago to telephone was pick-up, select and talk.
Today one must read first an instruction manual.
--
E.F.


From: Auric__ on 23 Jan 2008 13:40
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:19:16 GMT, Erich Foltyn wrote:

> I am a small electronic engineer, coming from the hardware site and
> I am unable to program in languages, for which people need 3 years
> of education and thereafter nobody pays me anything for it (and
> mostly with the excuse, that there is another language modern).
> Whatever you learn, they want something else, that they need not
> pay you anything, because nobody needs it really.

Learn C. Despite the changes that have been introduced by the ever-
changing standards, many (most?) C compilers can still deal with code
written 30 years ago. C is also a lot less implementation-specific than
BASIC.

> Years ago I could program planetary orbit calculus in BASIC until
> Windows-Basic prevented me from everything.

What is forcing you to "upgrade"? I still use DOS BASICs for many tasks.
Actually, since a lot of my programming is done in FreeBASIC under
Linux, I could even use QuickBasic as my IDE. (I don't, usually, but I
*could*.)

> And this is always the
> same: The progress destroys and makes all more difficult. First
> everybody could write a letter until computers came and people
> needed a several months education to write a letter. Years ago to
> telephone was pick-up, select and talk. Today one must read first
> an instruction manual.

Are you suggesting that progress is bad?

--
Progress (n.): The process through which the Internet
has evolved from smart people in front of dumb terminals
to dumb people in front of smart terminals.
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