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If you are defining a normal cyclical end-of-life event as a blind alley then why do you get up each morning?

On 12/29/2013 8:37 AM, D*B wrote:
<Jon>
Learning to walk is a process of controlled falling over. The destination is the learning - direction comes later.
</Jon>

... I have only one daughter, but 4 grandchildren (and have had a look to their friends...) all learned w a l k i n g none of them tunbled around and learned flying, or swimming - there seemed to exist a direction from the beginning.
Let me give some examples for blind alleys:
- Visual Age for Java
- Visual Age for RPG
- programming Lotus Notes
- EGL
- PHP for business applications (it's well suited for dynamic websites, but not for transactional applications...)

just learning as destination might fit for some aged freelancers (like me), working just for fun, but not for an organisation, having a team of programmers keeping a critical application alive.

D*B


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