Re: Ada Popularity: Comparison of Ada/Charles with C++ STL (and Perl)

["Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@cogeco.ca>]

Anders Wirzenius wrote:
> Marius Amado Alves <amado.alves@netcabo.pt> writes:
>>>Anyone else than I missing the good old days with printouts from
>>>line printers with continuous paper?
>>
>>This interests me, because I'm researching knowledge media, how the
>>medium constraints influence habits and effectivness of reading, what
>>levels of knowledge organization are influenced by technology... You
>>mean the "page principle" (fit a function inside a page or less) is
>>totally technology-driven (and hence not a principle)? Not a rough
>>measure of some cognitive absolute? Thanks.
> 
> I mean the easiness to "turn pages" using a finger under the left
> edge of the paper strip. My English is not good enough to explain
> that more detailed. I think everyone who have experienced the
> line printer paper strips knows what I mean. 

Another reason that "method" worked so well, was
that it supported the high resolution pen graphics (pencil
or pen, even highliters). Notes and scribbles, even doodles
often helped the thought process in more complicated
cases.

If you went further, and kept prior listings in a filing
cabinet (as one place I worked at did), then you had
the benefits of other notes, scribbles and alas, even
sometimes diagrams!

People usually won't make the same effort in electronic
forms -- so this is lacking today.

> Perhaps you may obtain something similar using a text editor 
> with bookmarks, but I have never reached that level of usage.

They don't support the "high resolution graphics" and
diagrams ;-)

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Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg