[Novalug] November Meeting (Possible) Topics

[Dan Arico]

> > I dunno...just about everything people want to do now has been written,
> > so now everyone is using someone else's packages with their own
> > metalanguages, directives, formats. Or menus and GUIs.
> 
> That's pretty much far out, and I think you know that. With that type of
> argumentation, everything programming was pretty much done when we had
> defined the components of "if, while, for, repeat, assignments". All
> languages are just repetitions of those core features. With all the
> development of plugin apps to pretty much any platform, there's still a
> huge market for developers/programmers.
> 
> But if you were trying to say that gone are the days where a programmer
> would define the whole premise of the application, yeah; that went away
> almost a decade ago.

Well, not exactly. I've written an entire system that I use for handling 
postal mailing lists. I started thirty years ago with programs written in 
basic under Smoke Signal DOS. Over the years, I've migrated that software over 
six different operating systems and eight languages, while making steady 
improvements. Right now, I'm on Linux and using Python.

The problem with talking about what I do is I can't figure out how to do it 
without giving away too much information to competitors.

Dan

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