[nylug-talk] Trend Micro sues Barracuda over ClamAV

[Peter C. Norton]

On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 11:46:58AM -0500, Ron Guerin wrote:
> Gregg Levine wrote:
> > On Feb 1, 2008 10:49 AM, Ron Guerin <ron at vnetworx.net> wrote:
> >> Ajai Khattri wrote:
> >>> On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, [utf-8] Zach Stern wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> So therefore, if you were in IT (you may be, I have no idea),
> >>> Sure, I was in IT, probably long before you (hell, I was probably
> >>> programming before your parents even met :-)
> >>> I also believe that as more people are exposed to alternatives from home
> >>> or college, that alternative IT setups will become more common. We're
> >>> already seeing it happen.
> >> I'm older than both of you, so I'm more inclined to use a circular word
> >> like *cycle*.  I remember the IT world before Microsoft destroyed
> >> competition and innovation, so what I see in the pipe now looks more
> >> like a return to a better past than a new uncharted future.
> >>
> >> And now I pass this off to someone older than me.
> 
> > How much older do you want Ron? I've been programming, and building
> > computer related hardware for the past twenty or so years. (Apple 2+
> > and Apple 2e, and then the PC. Probably the only individual left who
> > can tell you why an annoyed Apple beeps and displays his registers
> > when angry.)
> 
> Probably a bit older than you then.  I wrote my first code about 26 
> years ago.

Does that include something more complex than

10 PRINT "Boo!"
20 GOTO 10

or 

pen up
forward 100 
pen down 
right 45
forward 20

:)

-Peter


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