Re: Stupid home non-automation product

["Steve" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Jeff Volp" <JeffVolp@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Steve" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> Ladder logic is a wide spread approach to industrial controllers.  Easy
>> to do, no Comp Sci degree required, stuff programs more or less in
>> English. Classic process control/manufacturing kind of thing.  Very
>> different than the  classic computer languages and mystifying to the
>> structured programming crowd or those who think MS Visual products are
>> the standard.
>
> Totally true.  Ladder is very easy to use once one lets go of structured
> programming concepts, subroutines, interrupts...

Watching Comp Sci people struggle with it was always amusing when I was
teaching it.  At one point I was compared to Yoda in a room full of budding
Jedi attempting to convince them that it really was that simple.