On 12/02/2010, at 3:25 PM, Chris Lloyd wrote: > In Coders at Work, Peter Norvig recalled working on an interpreter. To > refractor it he printed out all the code, took it to a cabin for a week and > rewrote it with a pen and paper. My memory is pretty fuzzy, so it may not > have been Peter Norvig or even an interpreter, but a dude printed shit out. > > I've often thought about printing out the TeX source code and reading it like > a book, as Knuth intended. >
Your making me feel old, but then I am probably one of the oldest people on this list and have done what you described above many times. It is a good feeling to take several thousand lines of code, print it out and completely rewrite it with a pen and it works the first time. Now I am making myself feel old. Matt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
