Re: I used an Apple //e in the classroom today

[mdj <mdj.mdj@gmail.com>]

On Oct 17, 5:02 pm, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:

> Some people simply can't bring themselves to watch and enjoy black &
> white movies, but I think this speaks more to their inability than
> to any lack in the movies.

Indeed. It staggers me how somebody could not watch and enjoy (for
example) Fritz Lang's Metropolis. Not just black & white, but silent
as well.

Endurance is perhaps the only quantitative measure of quality we have,
and works of art that transcend both their medium and the era of
production are of course the most celebrated artifacts of human
achievement. Less, it seems, really *is* more :-)

> "Hot" media encourage greater passivity of the observer, while "cool"
> media stimulate viewer participation, if you get my drift...  ;-)

Absolutely. My text editor of choice GNU Emacs has a history almost as
long and proud as the Apple II itself, and isn't going to be going
away for the foreseeable future. Providing automated conveniences (and
the ability to quicky and easily add custom ones) to the task of
creating and editing text is a very well understood problem domain,
and little to nothing is added by the continual release of whiz-bang
word processors.

I was initially heartened by the market's resistance to adopt post-XP
versions of Windows, thinking it was evidence that people were
starting to 'get' this, but I'm not so sure now ;-S

Matt