Re: gEDA-user: Why use gEDA? [OT]

[Dave N6NZ <n6nz@xxxxxxxx>]

al davis wrote:

> Regardless of preference, at some time everyone will be 
> confronted with something else.  Whether you like it or not, it 
> is important to be able to cope with it.

Gee... in the old days, that was simply assumed.  Let's see...

My career as measured by operating systems on which I have developed 
code, in rough chronological order (naked metal systems not included :)

OS/360 MFT
OS/360 MVT
VAX/VMS
Apple II DOS
NOS/BE
NOS/VE
Scope
Kronos
Star OS
Cyber-18 OS
OS-1100
More VAX/VMS
Unix
Macintosh OS (the oooooold one)
Another Unix
A different Unix
Yet two more different Unix systems at the same time, requiring a 
portable code base
Windows
Unix again
Linux
Windows again, and I swear for the last time and never again because 
life it too short
Linux
Mac OS X (but so far only for the BSD part that you find under the hood, 
and only a few trivial things -- this hardly counts, I do mostly Linux 
work today.)

> As a teacher, try to emphasize this, even in the tests.  The 
> highest grades go to those who can dig in and solve strange 
> problems.  

Absolutely.  As a hiring manager, I'm only interested in people who can 
tackle difficult, unsolved problems with whatever tools happen to be 
available.  It's that "over, around, or through" mentality that makes a 
good engineer.

-dave


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