The journey begins.
Well I guess I should start at the beginning. I'm an old schooler. I learned how to program by feeding punch cards into a behemoth that we called a computer, some of you younger folks out there would probably think the thing looked more like a chest freezer.
Things were great in the old days of BASIC, FORTRAN, and COBOL. Then entered the Commodore Pet, and my own personal computer the Commodore 64, or the Commode as it was affectionately known(sometimes not so affectionately ;-) ). I learned a new programming language assembly language, and well it didn't stop there. By the time I left College I had over 30 different programming languages under my belt. Some of which I've never used since :-D (eg RPG useless language)
It was during this time period I experience my first irksome experience with Microsoft products. It seems their compilers always did some unexpected, and undocumented thing (in fact quite often the opposite of the documentation). These unplesant things would not come to light, until you http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.giftried to debug your code, and blow and lehold the exclamation "Why in the world is doing that? That's NUTS!", followed by the obligatory bashing of the head angainst the keyboard.
This was the start of my annoyances. Then enter into the scene Windows 3.0. Which seemed pretty nifty at the outset, but as time went on and it transmogrified into something truly nasty. Then came windows 95, and introduction of the Blue Screen of Death
commonly known as a bsod. Well this little nasty wasn't just an occasional visitor to my screen, in fact the little beggar became quite a frequent visitor. I was ready to thrash the programming team that came up with it, but you know how it is...you put up with it, because there are no alternatives. In 1995 that was more or less true. I supposed I could have gone back to using Amiga OS but by that time the Amiga really had it's time in the sun, and after all I was using a 486 66Mhz DX2 no less.(Yeah I was a little behind the times ;-) ) At this time the only programming I was doing professionally was consulting work, and that was sporadic to say the least. Most of my code from that time period never became public.
I think I'm going to leave the introduction there, and continue this later on, as it's 4:50AM and I think I need some sleep. We'll pick this up later on today.
Things were great in the old days of BASIC, FORTRAN, and COBOL. Then entered the Commodore Pet, and my own personal computer the Commodore 64, or the Commode as it was affectionately known(sometimes not so affectionately ;-) ). I learned a new programming language assembly language, and well it didn't stop there. By the time I left College I had over 30 different programming languages under my belt. Some of which I've never used since :-D (eg RPG useless language)
It was during this time period I experience my first irksome experience with Microsoft products. It seems their compilers always did some unexpected, and undocumented thing (in fact quite often the opposite of the documentation). These unplesant things would not come to light, until you http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.giftried to debug your code, and blow and lehold the exclamation "Why in the world is doing that? That's NUTS!", followed by the obligatory bashing of the head angainst the keyboard.
This was the start of my annoyances. Then enter into the scene Windows 3.0. Which seemed pretty nifty at the outset, but as time went on and it transmogrified into something truly nasty. Then came windows 95, and introduction of the Blue Screen of Death
commonly known as a bsod. Well this little nasty wasn't just an occasional visitor to my screen, in fact the little beggar became quite a frequent visitor. I was ready to thrash the programming team that came up with it, but you know how it is...you put up with it, because there are no alternatives. In 1995 that was more or less true. I supposed I could have gone back to using Amiga OS but by that time the Amiga really had it's time in the sun, and after all I was using a 486 66Mhz DX2 no less.(Yeah I was a little behind the times ;-) ) At this time the only programming I was doing professionally was consulting work, and that was sporadic to say the least. Most of my code from that time period never became public.
I think I'm going to leave the introduction there, and continue this later on, as it's 4:50AM and I think I need some sleep. We'll pick this up later on today.
posted by Nerdtek at 4:50 a.m.
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