Hello from Missouri,

I just found this site searching for some help and wound up hopefully helping someone else. I guess that's what it is all about.

I've worked in the comptuer field as programmer, builder, etc since the days of the first PC. Anyone heard of a SWTC 6800 computer kit or the KC baud standard? I've recently been a little burned out because of the constant changes in the programming languages. I can actually do less today than I could 10 years ago! I was a hard core C programmer in the days of Karnahan and Riche but have not been able to keep up with all the VC++ enhancements. I miss the days when one wrote all of their own libraries and built programs from the ground up. I have written application menu systems, ISAM file systems, editors, and more just to be obsoleted by a new language. Today, if you want to program, you almost have to understand a lot about Microsofts complex code just to get started. Then you have to study like crazy just to keep up. Anyone agree, disagree?

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Howdy mac,

Glad you found yourself here.. So far the people have been nothing but nice.. You do not see that on most pc help sites..

I agree and disagree though.. Like last year I had to take a refresher course taking CIS and 2 etc. I luahged a little as seeing pc's have just now (this year) came along way..Yes the old language is all but dead but thats why there is Linux

I think the core of everythig was going at crawling speeds for a bit. Now things will start to get harder to stay up on.
Vista drove up C prices again, (even for us home builders) but hopefully things will go back to a crawl for my brains sake gettin to old as well to keep going back to school here and there..

Nice to get a response.

Yea, I guess I just felt like complaining.
I think you may be right about Linix. I should try it. I used to be big on Unix until I got interested in microsoft. Do they still have the vi editor? How about grep and awk? I loved those global commands for changing code. We used curses as our screen positioning software. I wouldn't mind seeing that improved.

Those were the days my friend.

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