On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 10:02, sherlock@vsnl.com wrote:
Reading books on systems, oses and programming is one method. Other methods could be story listening and pavlovian conditioning. The last method is in wide spread use as it produces code of a unique quality known as sphagetti. Most "programmers" know this learning and programming environment as Visual xyz, running under an os known as windows. Rumours say windows and associated apps was written by microserfs conditioned to click icons at a furious pace, which by magic produces sphagetti code.
necessary C/C++ in depth to learn such Linux subjects .
One other method, in addition to the first, used widely in writing libre software is reading the source code. Both methods are highily recommended. Besides producing code of a very high quality, it is known to produce immunity to pavlovian conditioning and actually winds up teaching the reader to write code.
I second that. You've hit the nail on the head! I couldn't agree with you more. Visual this and Visual that cannot be considered "languages", atleast IMHO.
As a popular quote goes, I'd crawl over an acre of 'Visual This++' and 'Integrated Development That' to get to gcc, Emacs, Vi and Perl. Thank you.
Nothing thrills me more than writing pure, clean code on a black and white console.
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