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[DL Neil]

On 8/01/19 4:59 PM, rbowman wrote:> On 01/07/2019 02:10 PM, DL Neil wrote:
 >> Why is that obscure? It makes perfect sense - to those of us who have
 >> used tape/serial storage! Perhaps less-so to [bobble-heads], sorry I
 >> mean people who grew-up with 'bubble memory' (Memory sticks, 'flash
 >> drives', SSDs). In point-of-fact, Python Context Managers
 >
 > Bubble memory, now there is a blast from the past...


More like a whimper...

Working with a bunch of younger folk (who may technically be of the age 
of 'grand-children' - pardon me, I almost fell over my (long, grey) 
beard), I am frequently the butt of their gentle, if ageist, jokes. 
However, my sardonic amusement is to watch them wrestling with concepts 
'we' readily recognise, perhaps from as long ago as mainframe-days.

A similar observation relates to technologies which have come-and-gone, 
eg CCDs, and the bleeding-edge/crest-of-the-wave philosophies that it 
may not be worth rushing into every new technology - because it may not 
actually last the distance...
(Santayana's "Those who cannot remember [learn from] the past are 
condemned to repeat it." - my addition in list-brackets*)

* which was added only to be able to make tenuous claim of relevance to 
a Python discussion list!

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Regards =dn