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In article ,
Daniel65 wrote:
>Dorothy J Heydt wrote on 12/12/23 4:26 pm:
>> 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.
>>
>In the late 80's/early 90's, I did (little bits of) BASIC, Fortran and
>Pascal programing. Some writing in '1' and 'none' i.e. 'Zero' which then
>got compiled on to Intel 8085, Zilog Z80 or Motorola 6809 CPU's and I
>also taught basic/simple programing on those CPU's.
C onward should be the standard.
>--
>Daniel
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