[sclug] Amusement

[Mark Smiles]

hello Peeps,
Here's some legacy stuff  i did a long while ago. Basic , z80 assembler 
, 8086 , 80186, CPM , MPM (remember golf ball terminals and punch cards 
for programming !?)   Occam with concurrent Uclid (at college for micro 
processor design on inmos 64- bit  way back in '87),.  lately, I've 
started brushing up on expect , learning Perl  to work with apache and 
tomcat which i use a lot. When i can get some time, i would  like to 
understand  PHP, python, mysql and Java a bit more. Prolog is pants from 
what i saw years ago on Sun0S .  I know someone who programmed the 
shuttle arm with ADA but said ADA is a real pain to program in as the 
are so many variants in expressions to use plus the semantics are all in 
American idioms( says me using a US spell checker).

LDAP looks useful and i'm  toying with the Idea of  replacing NIS with 
LDAP in a  distributed compute farm to track accounting usage on wider 
scopes than NIS can provide.
Any  people knowledgeable in  Ruby programing ?

Regards,
Mark

Daniel Lower wrote:

>Hiya,
>
>New here hope you guys find this amusing:
>
>http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/errno.2.html
>
>BTW Languages I use Java, Perl, PHP, C, C++.
>
>Legacy blimy all sorts: Atari Basic, C64, Logo, Pascal, Modula2
>(yuck) LISP 3rd year AI so was fun, COBOL (yuck), 8086 Assembly,
>80486 assembly 68000 assembly. Would have liked to have done Prolog
>and gutted never got to write a DOS TSR/Printer driver.
>
>What's with the Windows Registry mimicking idea? Don't think so great
>unreadable binary file anyway Perl is fast as hell with Reg
>expressions for passing human readable files. Though thinking on it
>keeping configuration info encyrpted somehow in an LDAP server or
>such like might be cool for a cluster of a few hundred machines.
>
>Cheers,
>
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