Why is it always uphill both ways to school?

formortals@thesophist.com — Thu, 15 May 2008 05:12:00 GMT

I can't wait until JMJ 2.0 (my son's name is Jarrett Marshall James, aka JMJ 2.0) is old enough for me to sit him down and write his first program. To give him an idea of what it was like "back in Daddy's era", I will give him some completely crippled language that is missing useful features like eval() (yes, I am hung up on dynamic languages), with libraries that are poorly documented (you know, where the "DoRoutine() method is described as, "Does the routine" without explaining what the routine is...), and having to follow someone else's spaghetti code to get anywhere.

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Justin James' Critical Thinking

Why is it always uphill both ways to school?