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    From Arnold Trembley@1:2320/100 to comp.lang.cobol on Wed Jan 4 22:32:58 2017
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.cobol

    On 1/4/2017 1:43 AM, pete dashwood wrote:
    Anyone observing the somewhat ascerbic exchange between Doc Dwarf and
    myself could be forgiven for wondering: "What exactly are they talking about?"

    I can't speak for what Doc's point is (apart from repeating several
    times that I am "wrong"... to which my response has to be:"No, I'm not,
    and you are a poopie-head..."), but, speaking for myself entirely, I did
    come across the following site which has a succinct and clear
    explanation of my position:

    https://www.technologyuk.net/computing/software-development/event-driven-programming.shtml


    Please note, in particular, the opening sentence, and the judicious use
    of the word "paradigm"...

    Pete.

    "Brother, can you spare a paradigm..."

    That's actually a very informative article, and I have saved it.


    --
    http://www.arnoldtrembley.com/

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  • From pete dashwood@1:2320/100 to comp.lang.cobol on Fri Jan 6 01:51:55 2017
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.cobol

    On 5/01/2017 2:39 a.m., docdwarf@panix.com wrote:
    In article <ed3nd5Fji9cU1@mid.individual.net>,
    pete dashwood <dashwood@enternet.co.nz> wrote:
    Anyone observing the somewhat ascerbic exchange between Doc Dwarf and
    myself could be forgiven for wondering: "What exactly are they talking
    about?"

    I can't speak for what Doc's point is (apart from repeating several
    times that I am "wrong"... to which my response has to be:"No, I'm not,
    and you are a poopie-head..."), but, speaking for myself entirely, I did
    come across the following site which has a succinct and clear
    explanation of my position:

    https://www.technologyuk.net/computing/software-development/event-driven-programming.shtml

    Please note, in particular, the opening sentence, and the judicious use
    of the word "paradigm"...

    '... interrupt-driven programming of the kind found in early command-line environments such as DOS and embedded systems.'

    A desire to continue to inflict such torments upon users could be ascribed
    to religious fervor, aye.

    No less so than the desire to inflict procedural code (which pre-dates
    the above by several decades) upon users, I guess... :-)

    Pete.

    --
    I used to write COBOL; now I can do anything...

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  • From pete dashwood@1:2320/100 to comp.lang.cobol on Fri Jan 6 02:08:56 2017
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.cobol

    On 5/01/2017 5:32 p.m., Arnold Trembley wrote:
    On 1/4/2017 1:43 AM, pete dashwood wrote:
    Anyone observing the somewhat ascerbic exchange between Doc Dwarf and
    myself could be forgiven for wondering: "What exactly are they talking
    about?"

    I can't speak for what Doc's point is (apart from repeating several
    times that I am "wrong"... to which my response has to be:"No, I'm not,
    and you are a poopie-head..."), but, speaking for myself entirely, I did
    come across the following site which has a succinct and clear
    explanation of my position:

    https://www.technologyuk.net/computing/software-development/event-driven-programming.shtml



    Please note, in particular, the opening sentence, and the judicious use
    of the word "paradigm"...

    Pete.

    "Brother, can you spare a paradigm..."

    LOL! :-) nice one...


    That's actually a very informative article, and I have saved it.

    I'm glad you found it so.

    I found quite a lot of interesting stuff there, and it aligns pretty
    exactly with my own understanding of the terms under discussion.

    It's a UK site that seems to be connected/affiliated with W3C. W3C is
    one of the finest sites on the Internet, in my opinion and large amounts
    of what I know I taught myself using their tutorials and examples. They
    have courses available on just about everything computer related. I
    taught myself HTML from there one rainy afternoon, created my personal
    web site and gradually added things like animations, music and frames
    (as I learned how to do it...), all back in the days when there was no
    such thing as Dreamweaver or Visual Studio and you wrote the whole lot
    with Notepad.

    I also used them to get an understanding of CSS, JavaScript, JSON, and
    ASP. By the time I got to C#, on-line videos were available from MS
    Channel 9 (which is where I did most of my learning), but W3C remains a favourite resource for improving the skill set and I can't recommend it
    highly enough.

    http://www.w3schools.com/


    Pete.
    --
    I used to write COBOL; now I can do anything...

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  • From docdwarf@1:2320/100 to comp.lang.cobol on Thu Jan 5 14:29:24 2017
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.cobol

    In article <ed6trgFdee4U1@mid.individual.net>,
    pete dashwood <dashwood@enternet.co.nz> wrote:
    On 5/01/2017 2:39 a.m., docdwarf@panix.com wrote:
    In article <ed3nd5Fji9cU1@mid.individual.net>,
    pete dashwood <dashwood@enternet.co.nz> wrote:

    [snip]

    https://www.technologyuk.net/computing/software-development/event-driven-programming.shtml

    Please note, in particular, the opening sentence, and the judicious use
    of the word "paradigm"...

    '... interrupt-driven programming of the kind found in early command-line
    environments such as DOS and embedded systems.'

    A desire to continue to inflict such torments upon users could be ascribed >> to religious fervor, aye.

    No less so than the desire to inflict procedural code (which pre-dates
    the above by several decades) upon users, I guess... :-)

    Much less so... decades previously it was determined that users are to be given options to the command line, Mr Dashwood and kept far away from the embedded system, as well.

    DD

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