Yes, I realized that as I wrote the note (not to mention some of the Perl
out there).  It's a classic case of style over substance; I was unable to
find a consise phrase that precisely conveyed the meaning "Thank goodness
I was in diapers when the majority of those involved in mainstream language 
design thought was the way to do things".

Oh, wait; do C++ and Java count as mainstream?  They do?  Oh.  Nevermind. 

Joshua


> Hmm, you are quite a skilled typist for being so young.  Code, just like
> below, is still being written daily, at least in the astrophysics world.
> I joke not...  It's truly mind bending at times.  The project I work on
> caused howls of anger by requiring F90 for all fortran code.
> 
> Plus Fortran 2002 will be OO, accourding to rumors.  My fingers 
> cringe at the thought.
> 
> cheers
> 
> bruce
> 
> Joshua Gargus <gargus at cs.ualberta.ca> wrote:
> > Wow!  Thank goodness I was in diapers when people were writing code
> > like that.  Although hopefully in 30 years, the young 'uns will be
> > saying the same thing about that archaic Squeak ;-)
> > 
> > Joshua