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Message: [QUOTE="thunk, post: 4662341"] It was intended as the LastLink as the lastWord is rather dull... The word has so many meanings... it may not mean what you may assume it only means. There is something in there about making oneself bigger by trying to make others smaller. What does COBOL imply my dear fellow? It implies that I am dated to most anybody here, whether you are aware of that or not. NOBODY else has said anything like that - it has been FUN and fun it should have remained. The COBOL thing, imho, was a kick below the belt of a man that sees himself as trying to share something, whether it is shareable or not. Last night JOSH was great - on line - then off - he TOOK time to explain that while all sorts of AMAZING things happen on Heroku - it is only with some tricks that it is possible to "save a file". The whole "AI" thing was NOT intended. I see these things as "scripts" - that is how I name them internally. But "scripts" can be a 3 line "program" or a 100,000 line program in the Ruby world - with all the modules. I tried the term "BOID" because it was the best FIT I could find. I really think a lot of you guys catch a posting here, catch a posting there and get pieces of it all, well I have really wanted to determine if what I HAVE WORKING - has a fit into where things are for you folks that know this stuff and live it. My background includes authoring/designing software for my company and the two largest precision tool companies of that time. We did a lot of useful things and everything I am saying can be backed up. You guys have not invented software - and I still am not convinced that what I have working - which is NOT AI - but still has implications could not be useful. I TRIED to make these points but in retrospect, I suspect you guys have a lot of "real cranks" to deal with in the snake-oil division of AI Corp. I can understand that BUT what these humble Ru'ids can do NOW is very interesting. also over many years, I have noticed that when I prove something to myself without doubt - but the 100's of hours of project work still wait, I go through a period of self-examination / doubt / rethinking where I like to "chat" and think about the next more mundane steps and where it all fits. to answer your question as directly as I can think - that was a sequence of languages from top (earliest) to bottom (latest) you did a sequence with me i did a sequence back seemed fair. but I still do not know if I can save a file as text and load it as a executable class and do on Heroku what I can do on my box here. and as Mr Ryan Davis has pointed out clearly enough for me, the spit ball stuff is noise and there is a ratio to be watched. I'd like to CONTRIBUTE rather than stupid stuff like this. (but hey, who butts head with a guy named thunk anyway??) :) [/QUOTE]

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