[Watford] Something else discussed last night

[Alain Williams]

On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 05:28:37PM +0000, Jim Ford wrote:

> Thanks for the link - I found it very entertaining!

I was horrified that the education of our kids is partly entrusted to an air
head like that :-(

> She clearly has little or no idea what 'coding' is.

Nope, and the only applications that she could conceive of were web sites and
mobile phone apps. I suspect that she only has a hazy idea what a computer
really is.

> Perhaps these people should be put in front of an APL terminal and
> told that _this_ is what coding is, so it frightens them off once
> and for all so they get these silly ideas out of their heads!

No, something far better :-)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck

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