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On 10/5/19 2:14 PM, Always Learning wrote: > Technically [the new automobile] was never an "upgrade" but a brand new and alternative > system. > ... The automobile was originally billed in many areas as the 'horseless carriage,' an upgrade. > Luxury. Try running on a 32k single processor computer, started with > booting the card reader which read cards that booted from a tape. > > ... Frontpanel, 256 words (12-bit words), and paper tape.? But I also never had that straight-8 on the net, either...

On 10/4/19 10:40 AM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > My impression is younger generation doesn't value rules that > programmers were following 2-3 decades ago. One of which is: > > Do not make any changes [in the program] unless they are absolutely > necessary. > I have in the past agreed with this assessment more than once.? And I _am_ somewhat of an old hand at this, having run

Not only is [Markdown] dead, it's starting to smell really bad. (Apologies to Pike.) It's author appears to have little interest in developing the tool and participating in the community which uses it. I'd like to see the community cooperate toward a specification which addresses the shortcomings and ambiguities of Markdown (even if it need be released under a new name).