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Re: OT More pens (was Re: Phoneme winnowing continues)

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Monday, June 9, 2003, 20:54
Quoting David Starner <dvdeug@...>:

> 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.
Well, the benefits of a new technology are best measured by the amount of novel laziness it allows! Just to be obnoxious, I might point out that processing capacity nowadays is pretty cheap compared to programmer man-hours*, wherefore the trial and error approach (which cuts out the time the programmer would otherwise be double- checking error-free code), little doubt, saves money. * Should this be person-hours in these days of PCness? Andreas

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David Starner <dvdeug@...>