[Novalug] November Meeting (Possible) Topics

[Peter Larsen]

On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 23:56 -0400, Dan Arico wrote:
> > > 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.

So yes, thirty years ago it was quite common to solve everything
yourself, including the kitchen sink :)

But don't expect any modern application to be developed free of existing
frameworks. I think is what James was referring to too.

-- 
Best Regards
  Peter Larsen

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		-- C. Schulz
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