[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, at 10:26pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> ... "cargo cult programming" ... >> >> I like that term. > > Just to prevent any mistaken impressions, let me state that it is not >original to me. See:
Noted. >> When I was in High School I tried to learn UCSD Pascal on the Apple ][. > > Oh my! I remember that thing. All those nifty menu actions on the top of >the screen. Krunching the disk after deleting a file. What a crock. And dealing with a 40 column screen on a virtual 80 column one. Swapping back and forth. >> The compiler had a handy built in bugger. If your code was bug free, >> sometimes it would helpfully add a bug or 2. > > That explains a few problems I had with it. Fortunately, I already had a >copy of Turbo Pascal at the time, and was able to reduce my usage of the >Apple Pascal to a minimum. I had a Zenith Z-100 in college. I managed to get a copy of p-System for that too. And M/PM, CPM-85, CPM-86 in addition to MS-DOS. I don't want to go back though :-) > > I miss Turbo Pascal. :) Your editor, compiler, debugger and code all on 1 360k floppy. I used to have Turbo C on a 1.2MB floppy too. -- ------- Tom Buskey _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
