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[Walter Bright]

Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> Heh, very true. Of course, both sides could learn a bit from the other. 
> Sometimes the newest/fanciest/most-popular has loads of drawbacks that the 
> kids just don't have the experience to notice, and sometimes those more 
> experienced end up blinded to things that may very well be true 
> improvements.

Of course! Any good dev team has a mix of the old geezers and the young 
whippersnappers.


> My most advanced PC here is a 1.7GHz Celeron. It does what I need it to do, 
> and I'm happy with it. Lately I've found myself shaking my head at the 
> "young-uns" these days that feed hundreds of dollars into their rigs 
> annually just so they can play the latest games sitting at some desk instead 
> of a nice comfy living room couch and TV. And then they get into software 
> development and wind up inadvertently (or even deliberately) targeting their 
> own super-powered systems and wind up creating the world's biggest 
> bloatware. (And don't even get me started on iPods, "tricked out" cars and 
> the current generation of gaming consoles.)

I get a laugh out of the silly little cars with fake add-on spoilers, 
"racing" steering wheels and fart exhaust systems. When I was 15, a 
friend of mine got his first car, a $600 beat up '67 Mustang with a big 
V8 in it. He took me for a ride and floored it. It was like being 
launched off an aircraft carrier. I was hooked for life. You kids today 
have no idea <g>.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljIA2-Y9HQk&feature=related


> But as far as *make vs the newer make-replacements, I just got fed up *make 
> years ago in very much the same way I got fed up with C++. So I was looking 
> for replacements and found the D language as well as SCons and AAP (Ok, so 
> technically it's "A-A-P", but dagnabbit, I'm gonna call it "AAP" in just the 
> same crotchety way I spell "Haxe" with a lower-case "x" and pronounce it 
> "Hacks" instead of "Hex").

I keep seeing that as "AARP", the outfit that has started sending me 
letters to get me to sign up :-(