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From: "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: 'Graphics' of libwy
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2024 21:48:45 -0800
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On 12/19/2024 9:39 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
> On 12/19/2024 07:57 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>> On 12/19/2024 9:53 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
>> ...
>>> It's mind-boggling that for hundreds of years at
>>> least there were printed books, mass-printed or
>>> since the invention of printing presses and movable
>>> type, and that for at least 150 years there's been
>>> photography, for where the graphical renditions
>>> were painting or drawing, or statuary or what,
>>> that since about 25 years ago there are small-screen
>>> full-motion high-resolution displays, each different
>>> yet all same, yet of course it is still in a sense
>>> pixels, blits, drawing primitives, and sprites,
>>> vis-a-vis the procedural and high-level procedural,
>>> sadly an entire generation is myopic and reading has
>>> suffered, I think screens should be banned for youth,
>>> so they have to learn how to read to get their giggles,
>>> though that's impractical, point being that somebody
>>> needs to know the entire stack of the things at
>>> least in gross detail that thusly the efforts of
>>> "make a new one", while daunting, at least have
>>> a total embarrassment of computing resources the
>>> hardware, that if all the lately bloatware and
>>> various other kinds of wares that are of no interest
>>> to the user of the device, were gone, then implementors
>>> of course can make astounding demos, and even simple
>>> entire systems that are all quite bog-standard.
>> ...
>>
>> That is all ONE sentence.  I am impressed !
>>
>> Lynn
>>
>>
> 
> When I read Stroustrup's C++ book, I read the special
> and third edition, and the great book on stdio streams,
> or Kreft and Langer, among things like Harbison and
> Steele and Schildt of course and Kernighan and Ritchie
> after C, C++, the "closure of scope" of C++ was
> the profound concept, and including exceptions -
> the semantics of constructor and destructor
> and the rule of three and these things, have
> that after gaining some facility in C, and writing
> context structs and otherwise user data,
> "C++, Third Edition", very much helped moved
> from pointers to references, though so often
> practically it's pointers. Then of course there's
> all the "Effective" of good practices and things like
> COM and ATL and what were at the time so usual
> and these days are the same.
> 
> 
> Mrs. Chapman, the seventh grade English teacher,
> made everyone demonstrate that they could
> diagram any sentence, requiring of course
> the knowledge in vocabulary the part of speech
> of each word, that, it is after Tesniere and dependency
> grammars, that languages like English, have a diagram,
> and just like other what may be larger graphs with
> edges of various meanings there is that "graph layout"
> is something that starts small yet has for Tesniere
> and dependency grammars then that something
> like Curme helps arrive at something simpler than
> Cambridge, grammar.
> 
> Yeah, sometimes it's worse, one time I put a writing
> sample into one of those grade level estimators
> and it said "grade 26", ..., whereas everybody knows
> that the newspaper is about "grade 6".
> 
> So, by seventh grade, all were expected to be able
> to diagram any sentence, and, read the paper front-to-back.
> 
> 
> https://www.wordcalc.com/readability/
> 
> 
> If you actually enjoy this then in my podcasts
> I also speak this way though unfortunately
> many "uhs" and word-stuttering of a sort.
> Sometimes computing is discussed.
> https://www.youtube.com/@rossfinlayson
> 
> 
> 
> Warm regards, warm regards

For some damn reason when I read your comments, it makes me think of the 
following song:

https://youtu.be/DgaEd5hIxzI?list=RDMMy3hf0T4qpYg

Strange! I don't know why! Wow.