On Jun 1, 2005, at 12:39 PM, Frank W. Zammetti wrote:
Timex Sinclair 1000 by any chance?
Agh, you youngsters... My first program ran on a Burroughs 220 that was a vacuum tube based computer! But seriously, I agree fully that having learned on machines that had very limited memory, and having spent a lot of time writing assembler made me a much better programmer. But what I think contributed the most was that all of my early programming was done on mainframes where one compile and run (actually compile, link and run; remember link editors and overlay structures?) per day was considered pretty good turnaround. If you were going to get your programming assignments done on time, you learned to debug code by reading it and thinking until you found the errors. I still make very little use of debuggers to this day, and find the younger programmers completely mystified as to how I ever get code to work.
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