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- From: christ@lexis-nexis.com (Chris Tilton)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C or C++ for a 84-year old?
- Date: 23 Jan 1996 16:24:24 GMT
- Organization: Lexis-Nexis, Dayton OH
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- In article <4e28fo$2cuu@usenetw1.news.prodigy.com>, URGZ95B@prodigy.com (Minh Lee) writes:
- |> Don't ask me why I am writing this. Maybe because I am very pissed off
- |> by the 14 year show-off.
- |>
-
- well, at the risk of getting off on another tangent - I know a fellow
- at the age of 78 who has taught himself to program in basic. He dropped
- out in the 8th grade to work on the farm. He later worked as a
- welder, then taught himself electronics and even has a few patents.
- He is retired and still fixes ham radios and so forth on the side.
-
- He bought himself a computer 2 years ago taught himself basic and
- has built a crop modelling program that the agriculture department
- for Ohio State has expressed interest in. I hope that I am that
- rambunctious at the age of 78.
-
- On the other hand I have a grandfather who never owned a computer,
- doesn't want a computer, and is happy with his old manual typewriter
- and a calculator.
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