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But have you done anything really cool, like write a FORTRAN program that prints a data pattern to a 132-column, 600 line-per-minute IBM 1403 chain printer, that causes it to print out an American Flag, while at the same time the pitch of the sound of the chain plays the Star Spangled Banner?

That, my FRiend, is an accomplishment.

We used to reserve a word for only the best of the best -- true accomplishments: ELEGANT.

It had to be CCW-driven. Dang! I saw one CCW raw program exactly once when I was watching a CE diagnose a bad disk drive. I xeroxed a copy of it, but was never able to test it (yeah, they'll let my application program run in SVC mode [LOL!]).

*sigh* Ah, for the days of elegance.

[dayglored]

> *sigh* Ah, for the days of elegance.

And for when "that's a great hack" was a high accolade.

[dayglored]

> It had to be CCW-driven. Dang! I saw one CCW raw program exactly once when I was watching a CE diagnose a bad disk drive. I xeroxed a copy of it, but was never able to test it (yeah, they'll let my application program run in SVC mode [LOL!]).

Do you know if anybody on FR has ever posted the old classic "Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal" essay? If not, I might have to dig out my old copy and do a vanity someday....