Re: not enough real programmers? (was Re: Byte Magazine: 18 Vintage

[Victoria Welch <vikki@oz.net>]

"Lee K. Gleason" wrote:

>   In my work, I have to travel to lots of different machines...early on
> I figured out that it would be easier to just learn to live in an
> un-customized environment, rather than have to remember two different
> ways to do things (my local customized environment, and the "raw" environment
> I would constantly have to deal with)...so this test would eliminate me...

Since the age of reasonably standard machines :-), I keep a floppy (used
to keep a 1600BPI tape :) of useful mods / tools / whatever in my
briefcase.  If I can load it, all the better, those tools make me
quicker and / or more efficient.  If I can't, I cope with the raw
environment :-).
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