Simon Chappell wrote:
Back when I was a young programmer we used to have to think. THINK! Oh the humanity. No patterns for us. Just endless cups of tea, a pad of paper (or the back of long listings on greenbar) and your flowchart
Too funny; I remember when my 'IDE' was a sheaf of butcher's paper and a pencil. I could debug a program by writing a list of variables down the left side of the page, and enumerating their values in columns as I single stepped through (i.e. 'read') the souce code on an adjacent page. The 'edit' phase was where I transcribed the code from paper into the computer or editted the progam interactively (imagine!) in an editor. I was working in BASIC back then, so I didn't have to worry about compiling or linking -- I cut my teath on a 'dynamic programming language', bet you never thought of BASIC that way before!
I have to admit that refactoring on butcher paper was a bitch though! :-) L. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
