Message Forum: Re: generation gap

Re: generation gap

Posted By: Howard, on host 65.3.33.20
Date: Tuesday, June 22, 2004, at 08:04:41
In Reply To: Re: generation gap posted by Joona I Palaste on Monday, June 21, 2004, at 10:11:32:

> > I have to admit that there is still a minor generation gap. These days, everybody under 30 is a whiz on computers...
>
> Everybody over 20 and under 30, more like. Back in my day, computers had limited resources but were easy to program, and almost every child who got one tried his or her hand at BASIC programming. Some even went to machine language and tweaked the computer to their needs.
> Now children are pampered with high-technology computers that they only ever use for playing games or chatting on the net. They wouldn't know a programming language if it bit them.

I agree. I even learned to do a little programming on the old Apple IIe. But I never even tried it on these IBM clones.
Howard

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Message:	> > > I have to admit that there is still a minor generation gap. These days, everybody under 30 is a whiz on computers... > > > > Everybody over 20 and under 30, more like. Back in my day, computers had limited resources but were easy to program, and almost every child who got one tried his or her hand at BASIC programming. Some even went to machine language and tweaked the computer to their needs. > > Now children are pampered with high-technology computers that they only ever use for playing games or chatting on the net. They wouldn't know a programming language if it bit them. > > I agree. I even learned to do a little programming on the old Apple IIe. But I never even tried it on these IBM clones. > Howard
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