Hello Donald Meston. It was Today when you wrote:
| type a bit hard. Always fancied learning LaTex - in another job I
| spend a lot of time sorting out Macs for printing firms - typesetting
| is a sort of hobby.
If you still use a typewriter, I don't recommend LaTeX, since I don't
think there's a typewriter-compatible output driver for it yet :-)
| Mine is, in a sense about fiction being about personal myths in
| people with dementia primarily.
My final thing was a job recritment website. If I had any sense I should
have failed the previous year. They then stick you on the BSc Computer
Science course, not the BSc Software Engineering. The only difference is
that as a CS student you don't do a group project - you do an individual
one instead. One of the individual projects was to create an 8086 emulator,
another was to write virtual-memory code for Minix.
Writing Perl and HTML was the best they could come up with for group
projects...
| Well, it looks lieke the above resolution only just made the day out.
| The last time I wrote any code and waited for it to compile was in
| 1979. That could be "interesting" given that EMAS (Then running on a
I was 'compiled' that year :-)
| pair of ICL 4/75's so obsolete by then that ICL folk had never heard
| of them - they were 1966 vintage and even in 1979 that was way
| obsolete) was wildly unreliable and fell over at the most inopportune
| moments, usually when you had been coding for hours and hadn't quite
| got around to saving it on something that wouldn't die when the
| system fell over. But the principle remains - must find some paper
| clips to straighten now. :-)
|
Well you'll be pleased to know not a lot has changed. Things still fall
over when you run them, and people still forget to save their work before
running them (or save broken code over working code, etc).
Yesterday I found a paperclip machine in our pigeon hole. It's got a magnet
in it, and a magnetic roller. Paperclips go inside it, under the roller, and
when you turn this roller they come out. Provides hours of fun trying to
stack the paperclips :)
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