Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice is listed as an educational software for math

On 24-05-12 07:50, Marc Paré wrote:
> Hi Doug,
>
> Le 2012-05-24 00:50, Doug a écrit :
>
> > Logo! I haven't heard that word in thirty years, at least! I'm surprised
> > it's still around. Never really got into it, but it seemed like fun,
> > at least from a distance. I started using BASIC, and then learned and
> > used Pascal. Not being (professionally) a programmer, I never
> > learned C.
> >
> > --doug
>
> OK, I'm dating myself here, but, I was taught at the very last year at
> my university where "punch cards" were still being used, and I used to
> chat on beasts that spewed paper instead of drawing on monitors, way
> back in 1976. I studied FORTRAN in 1980 so that I could be with the
> up-and-coming in-crowd on campus ... only to find out that they all
> switched that year to COBOL, DOH!
>
> Yup, Logo is still cool to play with. I used FMSLogo because it played
> nicely with my computer lab of Mandriva Linux boxes. I even taught Logo
> on ICON computers by Unisys Corp. that used QNX as its operating system.
> QNX is what powers the new Blackberries from RIM! Finally, when the
> ICONs were being replaced, I installed AtariGEM on them and used the
> Atari version of Logo. It was a lot of fun! I was always accused of
> having more fun than the kids!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Marc
And Marc,
QNX was developed by Gordon Brown the genius engineer of DEC who 
developed the real-time systems (QNX is a real-time OS) like DEC-Lab etc!
Oh, the good old times when programmers new what real-time programming 
meant and rotating buffers were necessary to get speed and be really 
efficient with memory! Current programmers have no idea how to use a 
computer efficiently!!
(The rantings of an old man!)
Joep


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