Phoenix.pm: Of software and fish

[intertwingled]

Hey Scott, I got an honest-to-god Microvax 3500 now.
If I ever get netbsd or openvms running on it, you
can have a shell.  =)

Tony


At 11:05 PM 12/5/02 -0800, you wrote:
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>> Will it be illegal for a secretary to write a macro?
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>> Is there actually any boundary between using a computer,
>> and programming one?
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>> No.
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>> Or, prove to me that there is.
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>No. I agree. I've allowed for that in my argument, using the word
>"useful". You'll be able to program - in fact you'll always be able
>to go into the basement and fire up Perl 5.005 for AmigaOS on your
>3000 (or 5.10 on your AMD 3000), but if everything that is 
>interesting to people is done as a Passport enabled Web Service
>(SOAP), you may be excluded from the realm of "interesting things"
>by a matter of definition, much as interesting things in electronics
>are done using integrated circuits, excluding electronics hobbyists.
>
>I actually see casual scripting becoming easier in the future. Of
>course, I can only see into the future standing on my soap box ;)
>
>-scott
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