Re: GO TO HELL.

On 23 May, 01:16, "Pete Dashwood" <dashw...@removethis.enternet.co.nz>
wrote:
> "Alistair" <alist...@ld50macca.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
>
 
>
> Shows how making assumptions can be error prone. (You know what "Thought"
> thought... :-))
>
> For several decades I made a living maintaining code.  Mostly other people
's
> but sometimes my own as well.
>
> These days I don't do that. But that doesn't mean I CAN'T do it; I'm a
> programmer (remember, it is just one of the hats I wear).
>
> It is apparent to me from your last statement above that you have no idea
> what I do nowadays, when wearing my programming hat.

Probably true. I have attempted Java but find it obfuscatory and full
of pit-falls to dinosaurs like me.

>
> (I do not re-write code, except under very exceptional circumstances, and 
I
> don't normally maintain code (in the sense that people here maintain COBOL
> code)...I've given up trying to explain what I actually DO do in this foru
m
> because it simply ends up with misconceptions like the one you have
> demonstrated above.  This is not a criticism, Alistair. I understand why y
ou
> don't understand :-). Sometimes trying to get a new idea past existing
> preconceptions is like trying to explain the colour red to a blind man.

Or perhaps to a colour-blind man. Such as myself. No offense taken.
I'd use the wavelength concept to explain it. Or is it just a
particle?