Date: 03 Jul 1998 09:32:51 +0200 From: smoergrd@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com (Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav) To: Tim Vanderhoek <ac199@hwcn.org> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, David Caldwell <caldwell_david@hotmail.com>, FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Beginning user's OS (was: Here is a really odd question!!!) Message-ID: <rx4n2ar1ja4.fsf@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com> In-Reply-To: Tim Vanderhoek's message of Fri, 3 Jul 1998 02:23:10 -0400 References: <19980703010915.6825.qmail@hotmail.com> <19980703124514.H358@freebie.lemis.com> <19980703022310.B4457@zappo>
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Tim Vanderhoek <ac199@hwcn.org> writes: > On Fri, Jul 03, 1998 at 12:45:14PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > > > My theory is that UNIX and operating systems that work like it will > > > never die and they are fairly complex to understand,they require a fair > > > amount of reading to be done before trying to make additions or changes > > > and the rewards for working at it can be immense. > I think you do discount some of the things that can be learned from > DOS batch file programming (laugh if you will...I learned some pretty > damn important stuff there) and QBasic (the advantage here is that the > two may have friends also programming in QBasic -> larger support > group) too quickly. That said, the limit to what UNIX can teach you > is much much farther away than the limit to what DOS can teach you. I don't see a problem here. I have a friend at University (a PhD student - incidentally, he's the author of /usr/ports/lang/cim) who is teaching his son to program Tcl on Linux¹. The kid's got his own serial terminal hooked up to his father's 486... He's doing great so far. Then again, the kid's a little out of the ordinary: he's hooked on math/logic games such as Rubik's cube and the likes (though I think that hobby comes from his father) DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - smoergrd@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com ¹ Don't worry, his next computer will run FreeBSD - I've seen to that To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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