Re: [Dfey-general-discuss] [Fwd: [GeekUp] Fwd: Slashdot| Apple's Trend Away From Tinkering]

[Paul Sutton]

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Tim Dobson wrote:
> thoughts?
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [GeekUp] Fwd: Slashdot| Apple's Trend Away From Tinkering
> Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 10:56:22 +0000
> From: Paul Robinson <address@hidden>
> 
> I saw this over on the Open Manufacturing list, and figured as so many
> here are:
> 
> a) Tinkerers
> b) Advocates of "Free"
> c) Apple Fan bois
> d) And/or Apple hate bois
> 
> ... that this discussion might be of interest to several of you.
> 
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>> http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/01/31/1657233/Apples-Trend-Away-From-Tinkering
>>



OK I am older but I miss BASIC it was fun to write a program that did
something then see it working,  old versions of DOS came with GWbasic,
then Qbasic then I think quick basic,  but it was there and appealed to
a few people.

I think potentail coders are really missing out on not having these
simple tools available to them.  It will be interesting to see if there
has been a knock on effect since MS stopped shipping basic.

Lets hope someone will see the advantage,  but i agree its a good reason
to promote free software such as Linux as that comes with lots of
development tools so people need not miss out.

Paul



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