On Tuesday, May 13, 2003, at 05:00  PM, Robert Covington wrote:

> These days I know too much to be of any use to myself for that which I 
> don't know. That's a bummer.

... says he after learning almost everything about almost nothing... or 
is it almost nothing about almost everything? Or something in between?

My oft-stated lament: except for those of us able to draw on the 
accumulated and vast wisdom of a considerable cadré of folks (Mr. 
Covington not least among them by any means), how is an under-achieving 
non-nerd such as I (was and am) ever to get a toehold in this Macish 
business?

Need we reinvent the 8k BASIC interpreter on an 8 bit machine - a 
virtual machine, to be sure - to make the starting easier?

And, answering the question, no, because it is still possible to do 
valid but inelegant stuff with FB3.

But the allure of the elegance...
--
Ted Spencer
--
Nature, you see, is very difficult to rehearse, and nature has
a bad trick of missing its cues.
(Robertson Davies)