Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1

On 2/8/25 2:28 PM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 08/02/2025 18:17, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
 

My university computer science courses left me quite disillusioned.
Between my second and third years I managed to land a summer job
programming in a small shop in the real world.  For my third year
I arranged my schedule so that I had Thursdays off, and continued
to work at my part-time programming job.  There was no fourth year -
I dropped out and went full-time, and have been programming ever since.
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Yeah. You don't need a degree in hydraulics to fix a kitchen sink drain.

   I took ONE programming class - FORTRAN -  punch cards -
   and then wormed my way into profitable endeavours.
   Stuck to the medium/small enterprises and thus avoided
   most of the 'Dilbert' horrors. My forte was kinda
   one-off 'scientific'/real-world stuff ... good data-
   loggers and sensing and the software that went with
   them. Liked that a lot - dead low-level soldering of
   transistors on hand-made boards on up. Had to become
   more "IT" towards the end - servers/NAS/net/etc - but
   it wasn't as fun. When new management thought it was
   a great idea to go all M$/cloud, I retired.
   Old sage Steve Ciarcia once said his favorite
   programming languages was "solder" ... I'm kinda
   in agreement  :-)