[sclug] Lost in modern programming, help needed

[Graham]

Subject: [sclug] Lost in modern programming, help needed

Hi Gareth,

I suggest you keep a blog of questions, snippets, etc
I tend to use 'mc' in sub-folders of the months name
Review monthly and upload to wordpress or something.
Personally I hate 'foo' and 'bar' as they are unimaginative, distracting
and maintain a dependency on the reader already knowing.

Only you know what is worth mentioning.
Here is a script that may help:

year_mm_dd=`date "+%Y-%m-%d"`
vi -c 'set fileformat=dos' $year_mm_dd-NOTES.txt

Graham

> Message: 1
> Date: Sun, 05 Apr 2015 19:31:48 +0100
> From: Gareth France <gareth.france at gmail.com>
> Subject: [sclug] Lost in modern programming, help needed

> moving on from Quick Basic, I have found Python and Perl to be quite
> comfortable but I am having real issues with some elements of modern
> programming.
>
> I'm finding it near impossible to get help online as all those in the
> know seem to 'close ranks' as soon as I start asking questions and I
> think perhaps they find it difficult to talk to a dinosaur such as
> myself as it is like listening to a foreign language!
>