On Dec 8, 2007 4:38 PM, Andrew Brouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > An old-school hacker (poet turned progammer, classic!) once told me that > he used to debug his programmes (on mainframes, with not even 1M of > memory) by actually just watching a display of activity in all memory > locations. After a while, he just subconsciously internalised what was > going on and managed to debug the code.
I like that. It sounds strangely fulfilling. It's like a deaf composer writing a symphony. Cribbage was invented by a poet. Sometimes they surprise us! William Rowan Hamilton, on the other hand, was said to enjoy writing poems, and was encouraged to stick with math... -Chuckk -- http://www.badmuthahubbard.com _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
