| Age/Experience (was Re: IDL 5.2 reviews?) [message #13365] |
Fri, 06 November 1998 00:00 |
fireman
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Registered: August 1991
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davidf7203@my-dejanews.com wrote:
: Rose writes:
: > p.s. Please, David Fanning, don't mention age as a handicap. Some of us are
: > older than you might think. ;-)
: Yes, age is not a handicap. *Feeling* old may be, however. :-)
I don't feel old, and yet -
I was filling out a training registration form this morning. It asks
how long I've been using IDL. I started laughing when I figured it out.
Fourteen ... YEARS!
That may even beat you, David!
I've been using IDL since before it had a version number! When the
installation came on mini 9-track tapes...before any of this
high-falutin' gooey stuff...why, in my day, we were lucky to have
linestyles in our plots! I'll tell you...
(So why do I need training? My programming experience has been highly
discontinuous, and IDL develops features faster than I've been able to
learn them.)
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---- Gwyn F. Fireman
---- General Sciences Corporation
---- MODIS Characterization Support Team
---- Gwyn.Fireman@gsfc.nasa.gov 301-352-2118
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