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|    Sean Dennis to Dave Drum    |
|    Re: Today in History - 1    |
|    13 Aug 23 13:28:22    |
      MSGID: 1:18/200.0 64d920c6       -=> Dave Drum wrote to Sean Dennis <=-               DD> We had a bit of discussion on Cobol and Fortran at my computer guys        DD> (and girls) get-together last night. The only one of us still working        DD> with 'puters has his current position because he can maintain the code        DD> in a State of Illinois mainframe used to run most of his agency. Bv)=              Job security is a good thing.               DD> Me, I sell car parts at AutoZone amd cuss the kiddies at the home        DD> office who constantly futz with the OS (in Linux) the we use on the        DD> terminals at the counter. I really hate it when I try to access        DD> something that used to was easy to get to and has been buried under        DD> layers of menus and steps. Or hidden entirely and must be accessed by        DD> opening another program - like the catalogs for lawnmowers/garden        DD> tractors aor ATVs and motorcycles/scooters or the Heavy Truck stuff.              Unfortunately, a lot of programmers have very odd ideas about UI/UX (user       eXperience) stuff. I've seen the UI at AZ before. IMNSHO, it's overly       complicated.              -- Sean              ... Amiga made it possible. Commodore made it dead.       ___ MultiMail/Linux v0.52              --- Maximus/2 3.01        * Origin: Outpost BBS - bbs.outpostbbs.net:10323 (1:18/200)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 15/0 18/200 90/1 105/81 106/201 123/131 129/305 153/7715       SEEN-BY: 154/10 218/700 226/30 227/114 229/110 112 113 206 275 307       SEEN-BY: 229/317 400 426 428 452 470 664 700 266/512 282/1038 291/111       SEEN-BY: 292/854 317/3 320/219 322/757 342/200 396/45 460/58 633/280       SEEN-BY: 712/848 5075/35       PATH: 18/200 229/426           |
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