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From: | stop AT spam DOT now (Gilberto Gaudencio) |
Newsgroups: | comp.os.msdos.djgpp |
Subject: | Re: Do you want to learn C? |
Date: | Fri, 08 May 1998 13:09:49 GMT |
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"Frank W. Zammetti" <fzammett AT voicenet DOT com> wrote: >Problem is, the ordinary user dosen't even know what a line of code >is. Do you know all about how your car works (if the answer is yes, >remember than most people don't). They have a basic idea, but they >don't know the details. Same for computers. Try to explain the >complexity of how a CPU works to you mom. Unless she's very technically >apt, and I mean VERY, she won't have a clue. That's the way it is for >most people. > > Computers ARE appliances, they SHOULD be as stable as my toaster. The >argument is valid. Except toasters don't have over 5 million transistors... :) -- ||// \\// Gilberto Gaudencio // \\ quazatron @ geocities com //|| //\\ ICQ 1614980
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