Don Guinn wrote: > Building a spreadsheet is still programming. It's just not procedural. > Entering a document with markup into a word processor is also > programming. Don't forget the old EAM machines with boards. That was > programming too. I am still impressed by that architecture as those were > machines with cycle times of as little as 3 hertz and could still > outperform today's PCs with gigahertz speeds. >
For those nostalgic for the old days, when data flow was done with wires not formulas, here are some pictures. http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/plugboard.html Best wishes, John ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
