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*ahem*xbrotherx wrote:Well I am not as "hardcore" of a programmer as you. I am one of those new-fangled Rich Internet Application developers. I started in Flash about 8 years ago and in turn moved into primarily doing Actionscript development with a PHP/MySQL/UNIX scripting backend and now moving more into using Flex as my development framework (which is still a fancy way of making Flash apps).
I would like to familiarize myself with more traditional languages as C#, Java, etc. to teach myself better best-practices. So I might have mis-used the term "software" development. More of a web application developer.
I have seen a car (IIRC, a Lexus) with a Second Amendment Sisters sign on the door going down the road in Lakeway, so there's at least some basis to the story.I just wanted to pass along a story which was told to me the other evening. I was speaking with one of the board members for SAS (Second Amendment Sisters) the other evening, she told about an incident she'd had. Let me preface this by describing this person, she immediately strikes you as a sweet little grandmother, not as a "pistol-packin' mama", and is an extremely fun person to talk to. Anyhow, some of the other board members were down here visiting, and they decided they wanted to go to the range. On the way back, they were stopped for speeding in Lakeway. Of course, in TX, the first thing a CHL holder is required to tell the officer is that they are carrying a firearm. The officer was ok, until he asked where the pistol was. She pointed out that there was 1 in her purse, 1 in the console, and 1 in the glove compartment. Ok, no problem so far.... Then the little old lady in the passenger seat speaks up "Oh, and I've got 2 guns with me as well." The officer probably scratched his head.... Then from the back seat, "And officer, we've got 4 more guns back here." Then, after being told of the approx 2000 rounds of ammo in the trunk, the officer decided he didn't want to hear anything else, and went back to his cruiser to run the standard checks. When he walks back to the car, writing in his book, one of the other ladies asks him not to give the driver a ticket. The officer laughed and said that he would only give her a warning, because they had definitely just made his day.
I asked her if she had seen that officer since then, and she said she still sees him occasionally on patrol, and he just smiles and waves..... and probably swears to never pull her car over again .
I am glad that I was not the only one who had questions about those languages. He said traditional and I thought of COBOL, FORTAN, and BASIC - with line numbers of course. It has been a while since I used them, but that was where I started way back when a tty had paper to print on.NcongruNt wrote:*ahem*xbrotherx wrote:I would like to familiarize myself with more traditional languages as C#, Java, etc.
I would not call C# and Java "traditional" languages.
Boy this thread is really hijacked so I will continue the hijack.srothstein wrote:I am glad that I was not the only one who had questions about those languages. He said traditional and I thought of COBOL, FORTAN, and BASIC - with line numbers of course. It has been a while since I used them, but that was where I started way back when a tty had paper to print on.NcongruNt wrote:*ahem*xbrotherx wrote:I would like to familiarize myself with more traditional languages as C#, Java, etc.
I would not call C# and Java "traditional" languages.
Now I feel old! I wrote CoBOL in the 70's...you have not lived until you dropped a box of punch cards on the way to feed them into the IBM 360 Mainframe...xbrotherx wrote:I am one of those new-fangled Rich Internet Application developers. I started in Flash about 8 years ago and in turn moved into primarily doing Actionscript development with a PHP/MySQL/UNIX scripting backend and now moving more into using Flex as my development framework (which is still a fancy way of making Flash apps)
Heh. I took the "modern" language, FORTRAN77, in '81-'82. Very, very logical... and very, very process intensive if we were to apply it to modern applications.srothstein wrote:I am glad that I was not the only one who had questions about those languages. He said traditional and I thought of COBOL, FORTAN, and BASIC - with line numbers of course.
I speak fluent John Moses Browning.KBCraig wrote:Heh. I took the "modern" language, FORTRAN77, in '81-'82. Very, very logical... and very, very process intensive if we were to apply it to modern applications.srothstein wrote:I am glad that I was not the only one who had questions about those languages. He said traditional and I thought of COBOL, FORTAN, and BASIC - with line numbers of course.
Of course, this was a "modern" computer lab that still had punch cards and reel-to-reel 2" tape, and Star Trek ASCII art printouts on the wall.