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The ethical slacker

At the time, did you know it was the last time?

As a parent you watch your kids go through phases, just you aren't always aware that you are entering a phase or leaving one. For example, when is the last time you actually change a nappy? When was the last time you used the buggy to cart them around? You probably don't realise it at the time. One day you do it not realising it, and then the next day you forget to take the buggy out, then you realise that you didn't really need it and then you don't bother... unwittingly that day was the last day.

When was the last moment I wrote a line of Korn Shell, PERL, Java or VB6? Once upon a time those languages dominated my daily life, and then one day, unknowingly, it was the last day. When will it be the last day that I actually turn a line of C#? Will it be because my colleagues can't take it anymore? Or will it be because, by chance, I find myself on an engagement that forces me to use some special functional programming language to solve a massively parallel computing task and then I never end up with the opportunity to use C# again? Who knows. I wonder what that line of C# will look like? Probably just a closing brace and I won't even know it.

Published 16 June 2008 22:50 by James.Saull

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john.rayner said:

What a nostalgic and sombre post!  Imagine instead if you weren't prepared to let go of old habits so that you could adopt new ones ... you'd be working out how to get Korn installed Vista, complaining that Microsoft are no longer supporting VB4 and pushing your twelve-year old around in a buggy.

June 17, 2008 00:45
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