On Thursday 28 February 2013 23:20:08 Miles Fidelman wrote: > > Your experience doesn't make your point of reference of any greater value > > than anyone else's. Many people go back a long way. You were obviously > > in the miltary and/or in the States, since the first commercial computer > > this side of the pond was in 1963. But many much younger people have > > more useful experience. > > Can't speak to heavy handed or not, but let me suggest several points of > relevance: > > - those of us who go back a bit date from a time when computer science > was an offshoot of electrical engineering -
But no-one else boasts _every_ _time_ of being venerable. Secondly, I know of at least two people of equal or greater antiquity who came to computers through the arts or Maths. Thirdly, I didn't notice yesterday, but he is not even telling the truth. He cannot both be around 70 (he usually says he is approaching 70) and have worked on/with punched cards in 1949. (Do the arithmetic.) And I stand by what I said. Many much younger people (not all, many) have experience that is more relevant and more useful. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201303010833.41869.lisi.re...@gmail.com
