From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>,
"help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: [External] : Running emacs without any customisation
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2022 16:30:45 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <SJ0PR10MB548898F857106FE59BEDBFCBF3249@SJ0PR10MB5488.namprd10.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v8onzpdn.fsf@dataswamp.org>
> > That was in the 70's. Who are the equivalent people today?
>
> One can never answer where the "equivalent people" are in
> a meaningful way. One cannot compare between fields and one
> cannot compare one decade to another - well, this makes for
> fun magazine articles perhaps, but it's just bogus if one
> looks for a real answer in it. So don't do that!
>
> That said, I think it's safe to say today's people are as good
> or better in terms of technology: "development has gone
> forward" as the tautology goes ...
>
> But: was this more easy, or more difficult to do? Did it
> require less, or more brilliance? Those questions do not
> compute ...
>
> Also note that the "70s people", if active still, are also as
> much "today's people" as any 20 year old!
>
> The first programmer in the world was probably some shaman in
> a cave. He would cut symbol's out of the stone wall, then
> inhale toxic fumes from the fireplace, and eat mushrooms he
> had carefully collected in the wood. Then he would stare on
> the inscriptions on the wall until he collapsed of mental and
> physical fatigue - the program had then executed in his head,
> and when he awoke with a big grin on his face he would have
> found the answer to his question ...
>
> Now, if you would grab him from the stone age to OUR age and
> say, "Yes, uhm ... so today we don't use the cave wall
> anymore, and not the fire either actually! Instead we have an
> editor and a compiler, here, take a look ..." probably he
> would just say, " ... okay!" and the next time you'd see him
> he would stare into the monitor in deep thought writing
> code ...
All good. But you left out the id of that
cave-shaman head-programmer: Zippy (also the
immortal antecedent who discovered the non
sequitur and domesticated the Doggy Diner).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zippy_the_Pinhead
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doggie_Diner
https://v7.comicskingdom.net/comics/zippy-the-pinhead/2022-09-19/?widgetId=570
http://doggiediner.com/pages/zippy_00.html
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-14 16:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 118+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-10 11:36 Running emacs without any customisation uzibalqa
2022-10-10 11:46 ` Thibaut Verron
2022-10-10 11:54 ` uzibalqa
2022-10-10 12:10 ` Thibaut Verron
2022-10-10 12:41 ` uzibalqa
2022-10-10 23:40 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-10-11 15:00 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-10-10 23:30 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-10-11 15:02 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-10-11 15:13 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-10-11 15:56 ` uzibalqa
2022-10-11 15:59 ` uzibalqa
2022-10-11 16:19 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-10-11 15:57 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-10-11 16:17 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-10-11 17:24 ` Drew Adams
2022-10-11 22:48 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-10-12 1:33 ` Drew Adams
2022-10-11 18:52 ` uzibalqa
2022-10-11 19:10 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-10-11 19:13 ` uzibalqa
2022-10-11 19:43 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-10-11 20:26 ` uzibalqa
2022-10-11 20:45 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-10-11 20:53 ` uzibalqa
2022-10-11 21:23 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-10-11 22:01 ` uzibalqa
2022-10-11 22:28 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-10-11 22:31 ` uzibalqa
2022-10-11 22:47 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-10-11 23:00 ` uzibalqa
2022-10-11 17:45 ` RE: [External] : " Christopher Dimech
2022-10-12 0:12 ` uzibalqa
2022-10-12 1:44 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-10-12 9:59 ` Dr Rainer Woitok
2022-10-12 12:47 ` uzibalqa
2022-10-12 14:45 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-10-12 15:30 ` Drew Adams
2022-10-12 15:56 ` uzibalqa
2022-10-12 17:03 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-10-12 17:50 ` uzibalqa
2022-10-12 18:25 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-10-12 18:54 ` uzibalqa
2022-10-12 19:06 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-10-12 20:42 ` uzibalqa
2022-10-12 20:51 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-10-12 21:05 ` uzibalqa
2022-10-12 21:35 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-10-12 21:45 ` uzibalqa
2022-10-12 22:11 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-10-12 22:25 ` uzibalqa
2022-10-13 0:33 ` Dale Snell
2022-10-13 0:46 ` uzibalqa
2022-10-14 5:10 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-10-14 18:28 ` uzibalqa
2022-10-13 0:40 ` Po Lu
2022-10-13 0:43 ` Po Lu
2022-10-13 1:09 ` uzibalqa
2022-10-13 2:02 ` Po Lu
2022-10-13 11:17 ` Dr Rainer Woitok
2022-10-13 13:18 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-10-13 14:56 ` uzibalqa
2022-10-14 0:37 ` Po Lu
2022-10-14 0:47 ` uzibalqa
2022-10-14 3:21 ` Po Lu
2022-10-13 15:03 ` Christopher Dimech
2022-10-13 16:47 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-10-13 17:55 ` Christopher Dimech
2022-10-14 4:18 ` Jean Louis
2022-10-13 0:42 ` Po Lu
2022-10-13 0:50 ` uzibalqa
2022-10-13 1:07 ` Po Lu
2022-10-13 1:11 ` uzibalqa
2022-10-13 2:01 ` Po Lu
2022-10-13 2:05 ` uzibalqa
2022-10-13 4:03 ` Po Lu
2022-10-13 6:19 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-10-13 12:17 ` uzibalqa
2022-10-13 12:39 ` Po Lu
2022-10-13 13:10 ` uzibalqa
2022-10-13 13:20 ` uzibalqa
2022-10-14 4:09 ` Jean Louis
2022-10-14 5:11 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-10-13 13:21 ` Po Lu
2022-10-13 14:02 ` uzibalqa
2022-10-13 15:59 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-10-14 16:30 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2022-10-13 14:03 ` Pascal Quesseveur
2022-10-13 14:18 ` uzibalqa
2022-10-13 15:04 ` Pascal Quesseveur
2022-10-13 15:26 ` uzibalqa
2022-10-13 16:41 ` Christopher Dimech
2022-10-14 0:38 ` Po Lu
2022-10-14 2:02 ` Christopher Dimech
2022-10-14 3:19 ` Po Lu
2022-10-14 3:49 ` Christopher Dimech
2022-10-14 4:45 ` uzibalqa
2022-10-14 4:52 ` Christopher Dimech
2022-10-14 6:16 ` Po Lu
2022-10-14 6:31 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-10-14 16:01 ` Jean Louis
2022-10-14 18:43 ` tomas
2022-10-15 6:58 ` Jean Louis
2022-10-15 8:39 ` tomas
2022-10-15 17:38 ` Christopher Dimech
2022-10-15 19:37 ` tomas
2022-10-14 20:55 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-10-14 2:33 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-10-14 4:14 ` Jean Louis
2022-10-14 5:32 ` Christopher Dimech
2022-10-14 8:47 ` Dr Rainer Woitok
2022-10-14 9:57 ` Po Lu
2022-10-14 12:30 ` uzibalqa
2022-10-14 13:48 ` Christopher Dimech
2022-10-16 4:57 ` Jean Louis
2022-10-14 20:50 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-10-13 1:12 ` Christopher Dimech
2022-10-13 0:40 ` Po Lu
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