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=== Learning to code === | |||
[[File:Teletype.jpg|thumb|Teletype.]] | |||
The primary point of learning to code is, as you say, a machine automation skill. | |||
The intangible virtues include logical (or at least structured) thought. | |||
Also, the ecstatic rush of me being 10 years old in 1971 and writing: | |||
10 PRINT "KARL"<br> | |||
20 GOTO 10<br> | |||
RUN | |||
* [https://twitter.com/karl_jones/status/1325085232408748033 Post] @ Twitter | |||
=== How the past must not be altered === | === How the past must not be altered === | ||
Revision as of 07:42, 7 November 2020
Online diary of Karl Jones for Saturday November 7, 2020.
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Diary
Learning to code
The primary point of learning to code is, as you say, a machine automation skill.
The intangible virtues include logical (or at least structured) thought.
Also, the ecstatic rush of me being 10 years old in 1971 and writing:
10 PRINT "KARL"
20 GOTO 10
RUN
- Post @ Twitter
How the past must not be altered
Killing Hitler is the classic. There must be countless millions of time travellers who obsess about Killing Hitler — and every one of those obsessive time-travellers *must be stopped*.
Don't get me started on people who try to save JFK's hairdo from getting restyled in Dallas.