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- From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
- Subject: Re: So You Want To Be A Wizard? (A modest proposal)
- Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 10:13:21 GMT
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- One can not become a true wizard without understanding the paths not taken.
- Read Software Tools to understand the Tao of Fortran. If you can write
- portable text-crunching code in Fortran-66 you are ready to take the next
- step...
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- One can not become a true wizard without learning that the Source has a
- Dark Side. Explore the net and study the works of others, for experience
- is the best teacher, and you can learn much from those who failed to
- listen to it. There is much darkness in the halls of FTP...
-
- One can not become a wizard without knowing adversity. Take the oldest, least
- powerful, and least compatible piece of junk you have access to, and port any
- GNU software to it. Only then will you learn how to write portable code, and
- why.
- --
- Peter da Silva. <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
- `-_-' Oletko halannut suttasi tΣnΣΣn?
- 'U`
- Tarjoilija, tΣmΣ ateria elΣΣ vielΣ.
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