[Coco] OO programming - [Was]:Emulator

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 06 November 2009, Mark McDougall wrote:

>Mark McDougall wrote:

>> I studied computer science as my 1st degree, and despite the name of my

>> course, I was well and truly a "programmer" for the first few years in

>> the workforce. A few years later I returned to study Electrical

>> Engineering, and since then I see myself more as a "software engineer".

>

>To add a comment or two...

>

>My best mate did the _same_ Computer Science degree as me back in '84. He

>has worked as a "programmer" for over 20 years now, but is ignorant of

>pretty much anything outside the sphere of his work experience. It would

>take him 6 weeks to get a LED blinking on an 8051 dev kit. In fact, he

>struggles installing windows on his own PC. Though to be fair, he has

> always been bone lazy, never interested in learning anything for himself,

> and would rather phone me to ask a question than type a few search terms

> into Google.

>

>My wife took a print-out of a directory listing into work to give to a

>colleague (a list of video files to be exact). One of the IT guys there -

> at an IT company no less - saw that it was a list of files, and remarked

> "WOW, how did you do that?" :O

>

>Regards,

>

And they live among us. Good Grief!

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