Salakhetdinov Shamil
mcp2004 at mail.ru
Fri Oct 11 04:47:24 CDT 2013
Hi Arthur -- LOL. You're right but... <<<I started thinking that Windows was the next Big Hit. >>> ...believe me or not I personally have *never* been thinking that "Windows was the next big thing". IMO "the best ever" computer architecture were PDP and VAX, and the best ever OS was RSX-11M or VMS. I worked a lot with the former but when the local engineers managed to clone VAX it was too late - exUSSR get fallen and PCs came to crush VAX-es. So I know about the latter (VAX/VMS) mainly from computer books... As you know "t he history of UNIX starts back in 1969, when Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and others started working on the "little-used PDP-7 in a corner" at Bell Labs and what was to become UNIX" ( http://www.unix.org/what_is_unix/history_timeline.html ). And it's no surprise - only such a technological beauty as PDP architecture and related technologies could become a driving-force foundation for a long living and progressing OS as Unix/Linux. Anyway, I'm continuing my MS Windows application software development "odyssey" as it helps me to make my and my family living, and I currently do not have time for Unix/Linux. At least I've overcome "VBA/VB addiction" - C# as it's now is a pleasure to code with... I'd go "down to the roots" to C/C++ coding (and even some assembler for fun) if time allowed but I doubt I will ever have that opportunity in this life... Thank you. -- Shamil Friday, October 11, 2013 3:22 AM -04:00 from Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com>: >You are both correct. At this point in my development cycle, my choice is >JavaScript, but that is a side issue. Given enough RAM (8GB of at least DDR >2 shall suffice), then a foundation-install of one or another Linux seems >the obvious way to go, and creating one or more VMs to deal with my >remaining few clients who live in Windows, that's the way to go. > >DammitOl (I'm considering trademarking that as a universal panacea to be >prescribed only to programmers with Obsessive-Compulsive-Language Disorder. >The most apparent symptoms are an eager willingness to foresake paradigms >that work in favour of some delicious new framework, wearing a mini-skirt >and high heels, but I digress. > >This is a therapy session, so come on, boys and girls. Let us admit, >together, as a group, that we share an awful addiction to Things That Are >New. Let us hold hands and listen to each other's stories about how we fell >into version-addiction. > >Hi, my name is Arthur, and I am a versionholic. It started with CP/M, and I >smoked it a few times, and the sex was great, but before I knew it I was >coaxed into DOS, and then once they got me hooked, I started thinking that >Windows was the next Big Hit. I fell into the trap of thinking that nest >glass of vodka woule prevent all my DLL nightmares. Pretty soon I started >drinking the next version, and the next, and then they promised that the >next drink would fix everything, and I fell for it. It cost me my house and >my wife and I can only see my software children on weekends. I fell astray >and I apologize to all previous clients. (Bring up the music and the choral >singers.) > >Alack and Alas! > >(Echoes of Rickie Lee Jones and "Last Chance Texaco" -- oh God that music >was so great) > >etc. > > ><<< skipped >>> -- Салахетдинов Шамиль