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The fun of developing in a system that didn't rely on
multiple languages, the modal dialogs were modal,
the statefulness was manageable, the security was
secure, a stylesheet was applied to a document not
a form, hyperlinks were old fashioned and only
used for TOCs and inverted indexes in the composition
engine, complexity was used to describe income
tax forms, we could buy a system from a vendor
that supported it for ten years, if you could master
the main function, the rest was easy, SQL was a novel
but useful toy, a path expression didn't look like
it derived its syntax from subway grafitti...
... "with the sun sinking down, in the fields I see,
that mule, ol' Rivers and me."
At 50, it always looks better in the rearview mirror. :-)
len
From: Michael Champion [mailto:michaelc.champion@gmail.com]
On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 15:52:54 -0600, Bullard, Claude L (Len)
<len.bullard@intergraph.com> wrote:
>
> 7) To know that a better universe existed, you have
> to be old enough to remember it. For the web, that
> means you have to be at least 50 years old. That
> means you are in a distinct minority among active
> developers.
Foolishlly taking the bait :-) OK, I'm over 50, and I don't remember
any better universe. What are you referring to?
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