Re: Nostalgia

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From: Bob Eager
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2018 21:23

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On Sat, 17 Feb 2018 18:54:16 +0000, Jorgen Grahn wrote:

> On Thu, 2018-02-15, Quadibloc wrote:
> ...
>> And when computers communicated to the user by typing back... not with
>> a graphical interface, computer programs were simpler to write.
> 
> There's still a fraction of the Unix community using those kinds of
> interfaces -- it's not all in the past.
> 
> And I /do/ think one of the major benefits is that it's more inviting to
> new programmers.

I spent some weeks teaching that interface just before Christmas, as I 
have done most years.

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