Re: OT More pens (was Re: Phoneme winnowing continues)
| From: | David Starner <dvdeug@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, June 9, 2003, 20:02 |
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On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 03:30:11PM +0200, Andreas Johansson wrote:
> But the worst part is that
> it feels so artificial - when would a programmer not have access to
> computer?!? To top it off, one's probably made a number of idiot errors that
> one'd seen instantly if one was able to test-compile it.
Back in the day, people punched up the program and handed it to the
computer operator, who would return the results to the programmer the
next day. I assume they learned not to make those idiot errors pretty
quickly.
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David Starner - dvdeug@email.ro
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