Re: Need some ammunition (Procedures vs. Sub-routines)

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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
>