Sad to hear of the death of the inventor of Copy and Paste, Larry Tesler. Think of the weeks of work that he must have saved us, well, me anyway.
David Ainsworth ● 2456d14 Comments
Me too.
Elizabeth Balsom ● 2456d
I expect Mr Carter will be attending the funeral.
Freddie Francis ● 2456d
Cynical as you may be, not having to rephrase someone else's work allows their intention of meaning to be understood rather than your own. Perhaps we should also mourn the precis since we (or certainly I) now practise it so little.
Philippa Bond ● 2456d
There's this thing known as the lowest form of humour...
Sean Hodges ● 2456d
Excuse me Freddie,Your comment was really unnecessary and unpleasant. As somebody mentioned yesterday, if you have nothing nice to say, please say nothing.
Ivonne Holliday ● 2456d
Wow, it's like I'm right here in the room.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vNurmKT9zM
David Ainsworth ● 2456d
Haven't heard that for a while, David :-)
Michael Ixer ● 2456d
Yes, David, one for wimps? Real programmers yank and paste ...Still, think of all those hours it's saved those school kids who can now just copy and paste their homework from Wikipedia :-)https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/19/21144516/larry-tesler-cut-copy-paste-dies-at-74-apple-xerox-amazon-obituary
@Ivonne. "Your comment was really unnecessary and unpleasant." So making a joke about how someone loves cutting and pasting so much that he's well known for it here is 'unpleasant? You need to get a sense of humour or at least lighten up.
I do not think so, Freddie. No problem with my sense of humour at all.The "I expect Mr Carter will be attending the funeral" did not come across as a joke; it came across as a dig, sadly.
I'll miss him. I'll miss him. I'll miss him. I'll miss him. I'll miss him. I'll miss him. I'll miss him. I'll miss him.
Roy Robart ● 2456d
@Ivonne. He's had worse from people here and I'm not the first one to mention his copy and pasting. I'm sure he can take a joke. Unlike you.
Brilliant! :)
Simon Knight ● 2455d