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From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca
In article ,
Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
>In article ,
>The Doctor wrote:
>>In article ,
>>Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
>>>In article ,
>>>The Doctor wrote:
>>>>In article ,
>>>>Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
>>>>>In article ,
>>>>>Daniel65 wrote:
>>>>>>The Last Doctor wrote on 28/11/23 8:49 pm:
>>>>>>> Daniel65 wrote:
>>>>>>>> Dorothy J Heydt wrote on 28/11/23 4:21 am:
>>>>>>>>> In article , The True Doctor
>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> On 23/11/2023 18:26, Tim Merrigan wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> On Wed, 22 Nov 2023 21:46:36 +0000, The True Doctor
>>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>> On 22/11/2023 20:12, Tim Merrigan wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Wed, 22 Nov 2023 14:12:28 +0000, The True Doctor
>>>>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Retarded thinking by degenerate patronizing woke
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> hypocrites and bigots who no body asked for them to be
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> represented by.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Make up your mind, is it "woke" or bigoted? (What
>>>>>>>>>>>>> people appear to object to most about "woke" is that it's
>>>>>>>>>>>>> not bigoted.)
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> It's both woke and bigoted. That's how the conjunction
>>>>>>>>>>>> 'and' works. If I'd wanted to make it optional I would have
>>>>>>>>>>>> said 'or'.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> five specials and an 8 episode season in the can
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> already and production is underway on the 2025
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> season), so we can either learn to live with it and
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> accept the show for what it now is, or move on.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Doctor Who ended in 2017. Other people will continue
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> it from where it ended. RTD isn't making anything for
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the viewers, and neither was Chibnall. They're only
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> making stuff for their own woke degenerate egos.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Thus speaketh the fanatic who thinks canon should follow
>>>>>>>>>>>>> his fanfics.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> My fan fic. was better written than both Chibnall's and
>>>>>>>>>>>> Davies's, based on real canon, and had an able bodied
>>>>>>>>>>>> Davros creating the Dalek travel machines so shouldn't you
>>>>>>>>>>>> be prizing it?
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Jodie Whittaker's Doctor IS real canon at this point. It's
>>>>>>>>>>> not up to you, or anyone outside the production and publicity
>>>>>>>>>>> staff at BBC, to decide otherwise. What you're talking about
>>>>>>>>>>> is fanfic.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Whittaker is not canon and neither is anything derived from
>>>>>>>>>> the Timeless Child monster era. Doctor Who therefore ended in
>>>>>>>>>> 2017 and is irrevivable unless the Timeless Child monster is
>>>>>>>>>> erased.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> [Hal Heydt] Who died and made you the arbiter of canon?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> We've been waiting quite some time to get the answer to that
>>>>>>>> question, Dorothy.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> That’s Dorothy’s husband Hal engaging, Daniel (hence the tag). At
>>>>>>> least until Aggie’s absurdities exhaust his patience. Dorothy passed
>>>>>>> last year.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>Ah!! Sorry! With the surname 'Heydt' I guessed a non-English speaking
>>>>>>poster, so thought the 'Hal' might have been from that other language.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Sorry, Hal. Sorry for not realising you weren't Dorothy .... and sorry
>>>>>>for her passing (even though I didn't know her) .... but I guess that'll
>>>>>>come to us all, sooner or later!
>>>>>
>>>>>[Hal Heydt]
>>>>>I'm not upset about the mistake.
>>>>>
>>>>>A couple of bits of history... The eponymous Heydt was Karl Otto
>>>>>Heydt who came to the US from Prussia to avoid being drafted to
>>>>>fight in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870.
>>>>>
>>>>>When we were married, Dorothy cheerfully change her surname from
>>>>>Jones to Heydt because she had found over the years that a
>>>>>surprising number of people could neither spell nor pronounce
>>>>>Jones. (Go figure.) Likewise, because of the same issue with
>>>>>Heydt, when our daughter was married, she changed her surname to
>>>>>that of her husband, Creelman. She has since found...the same
>>>>>issue.
>>>>
>>>>Languages and cultures come to mind.
>>>
>>>[Hal Heydt]
>>>More about languages than you might suppose. Dorothy had a
>>>degree in Linguistics. Me...the only languages (other than
>>>English) that I can deal with are for programming computers.
>>
>>As in C, COBOL, Fortran, Pascal, BASIC ...
>
>[Hal Heydt]
>I *can* write in C, though not well. I spent a lot of years
>writing in COBOL, and I can make it do things that aren't always
>meant to be possible. FORTRAN is kind of rusty. I started with
>FORTAN II and later got FORTRAN IV (pretty easy transition).
>Never learned Pascal. BASIC I get by in because I knew FORTRAN.
>Also learned and/or used a number of assembly languages... SPS
>IID, Autocoder, ALC (aka BAL), COMPASS. (Points to those that
>can identify the machines or operating system those apply to.)
>
>Also got reasonably decent with SQL, which might or might not be
>considered a "laungauge".
>
>And then there's there other stuff like RPG and some similar
>languages whose names I've forgotten. And the languages that I
>learned at one point and now can't even recall the names of. Ah,
>yes... ALGOL was one of them.
You are indeed ancient.
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