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Re: Low-level vs. High-level programming (was My First Computer)
- Subject: Re: Low-level vs. High-level programming (was My First Computer)
- From: wildstar <wildstar128@hotmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 20:27:25 -0000
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"Randy McLaughlin" <randy@nospam.com> wrote in
news:wDHJa.1033$lT4.267@fe04.atl2.webusenet.com:
> One idiot claims he does not care what is documented he only cares
> about what two people think that he respects. The people he states
> are experts in commodore programming and are very respected people,
> but I personally believe that other peoples opinions may also be worth
> something. Since many colleges and universities have courses in HTML
> programming I assume that they have vetted the people they have chosen
> to teach these programming courses.
I didn't say that. It depends on the person who documents. This depends
on background not whether or not I like them or respect. As far as
respect goes, there is two types of respect. One that is built on
friendship and one that is professionally built on. People like Jim
Butterfield is highly respected because most people such as yourself
began programming with people like him writing books about how to program
and I respect his authority because he is right about alot of things he
written in programming. The guy has been programming while people like
WhiteFlame was being either bottle feed or breastfeed. So the guy is
legendary and highly knowledgable in programming as well. Though I
respect White Flame because he is knowledgable in programming because he
is has experience so where would you trust your information source. From
someone who hasn't even had even had 1 week of computer programming or
someone who written and documented the CBM PET memory map in matter of a
month since the CBM PET was released and within a year wrote a book about
how to program the Commodore PET. Jim Butterfield is the guru. A good
percentage of the top senior programmers in big companies like
Activision, Microsoft, and several others learned how to program by
reading his books and others of those days. Another one for you, would
you trust the words of someone who probably has not even one week of
computer programming to someone who has at least 5-10 if not 15-20 and in
some cases 30+ years of computer programming.
It depends on who wrote the definition and their background.