Being safe on the internet (was Re: Here we go again - ISP DPI, but is it interception?)

[Ian Mason]

On 9 Aug 2010, at 19:35, Ian Batten wrote:
>
> If there's anyone alive that hasn't read the original "real  
> programmers" article, which opens
>
>> The easiest way to tell a Real Programmer from the crowd is by the  
>> programming language he (or she)
[snip]
>> Programmers don't need all these abstract concepts to get their  
>> jobs done-- they are perfectly happy with a keypunch, a Fortran IV  
>> compiler, and a beer.
>

It also contains the immortal line:

> Real Programmers do Artificial Intelligence programs in Fortran.

And once that was exactly what I was employed to do. Thus I feel that  
have some justification to consider myself a cut above the rest. :-)

IanM