Re: OT [newbie] Off-topic posts.

[Carroll Grigsby]

Ozz:
Can't resist it --
I once had a boss who claimed that he learned to program in octal. The
hard part was punching the holes in the cards with a nail file.
(oh well, it is labeled off-topic, right..)
-- Carroll

"Austin L. Denyer" wrote:
> 
> It also helps for programming.  Those of us who can remember programming in
> raw hex using a 25-key keypad with a 7-segment LED display on a machine with
> only a few kilobytes of RAM know the importance of tight code.  A lot of
> today's programmers wouldn't believe the applications we could write in a
> few kilobytes.  Also, the tight code ran so much faster than today's
> bloatware...
> 
> Oh well.
> 
> Regards,
> Ozz.