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["Toni Hawryluk" <tonihawr AT msn.com>]

----- Original Message ----- From: Bill Jones<mailto:billj AT harborside.com> 
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> It's great to be able to make the computer actually do something.  It's 
> funny how we've gone from having computers that empowered the user to write 
> their own programs, to computers that foster helplessness and
monotony.  

Depends on whether one *wants* the computer
to "do something" 

or if one wants to do something

*on the computer*. 

If it's the latter, then one must decide 
whether whatever is going to be text or graphics ... 
same old, same old - -  yes/no-on/off-either/or ...
It's when one is determined to do *both* that
"trouble" arises. Sometimes accompanied by
necessity, that mother-of-invention ... <g>

> Until I got this compiler I really can't say I used my computer as much 
> more than a typewriter and picture viewer. 

And how many computer *users* *need* more
than a picture-viewing typewriter ?