@larand You people are fun to invite to the north-east in winter.
// @phoneboy @kdfrawg @hybotics
YES! My knee and my foot are aching badly and I am having to limp for a couple of seconds when I leave a chair! My right hand is also throbbing!
It will rain soonish.
@kdfrawg Ours is supposed to start by 9:00pm but I have my doubts.
// @phoneboy @larand
@phoneboy 28/83f and rooting for the first rain in over a month to hit. Hopefully.
// @larand
@matigo A lot of the framework stuff was bittersweet to me. I truly wanted the stuff to work and so often, it didn't.
I mean, look at MFC. It was a bunch of C++ classes designed by people who didn't really "get" C++.
It was hard to trust frameworks after dealing with that.
// @konrad
@matigo You have to realize, too, that managed languages went against almost everything you were taught or experienced.
"They say this stuff will automatically know when to dereference and dispose of this object. HAHAHAHAAHAHA. They are on drugs!"
Also, it didn't help that most of it was being done on a platform with "BASIC" in the name. Especially to people like me who thought that every word Dijkstra uttered was golden.
It took me a while to get comfortable with that concept.
// @konrad
@konrad It's hard to trust a modern "journalist" because true journalists are hard to come by. A field that used to draw stubborn, analytical and insightful people now attracts the distressingly vapid.
@konrad I have a certain nostalgia about that era but I am pretty sure I would react violently if you tried to drag me back there,
I can only imagine the frustration where the UI was concerned. Particularly if this project were a a Win16, C language monstrosity with a 100 km long switch statement capturing all of the messages.At least I hope it wasn't like that. That'd be a nightmare. and if you had to live with that nightmare, I'm sorry.
// @matigo