From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,243dc2fb696a49cd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!tdsnet-transit!newspeer.tds.net!cyclone.bc.net!news.uunet.ca!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada Popularity: Comparison of Ada/Charles with C++ STL (and Perl) References: <11b4d.3849$d5.30042@newsb.telia.net> <1095860313.176522@yasure> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 12:53:12 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.223.163 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1095958293 198.96.223.163 (Thu, 23 Sep 2004 12:51:33 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 12:51:33 EDT Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4024 Date: 2004-09-23T12:53:12-04:00 List-Id: Anders Wirzenius wrote: > Marius Amado Alves 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 ;-) -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg