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Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages
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Jacques Menu |
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Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages |
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Wed, 26 Aug 2015 15:30:52 +0200 |
1€ question for the young : whom does EWD stand for, and did he bring to
computer science?
JM
> Le 26 août 2015 à 13:12, David Kastrup <address@hidden> a écrit :
>
> Johan Vromans <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 18:41:54 +0200
>> Jacques Menu <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>> In the APL course I took years ago, the teacher said: « Exercice for the
>>> next two weeks : find out what this sample program (25 symbols
>>> altogether) does. A guy says two weeks later: « It does this and that…
>>> but it took me two and a half hours to find out! » And teacher answers: «
>>> Well, it took me two hours to write! »
>>
>> I recall that crucial to APL was its interactive environment. We had
>> dedicated ttys with APL keys. Program development was adding one symbol at
>> a time, trying what happened. Repeat until the program was finished.
>>
>> For real programming we wrote Algol on punch tapes, later punch cards.
>> Turnaround time was one day, so you wrote the program, printed it,
>
> You poor backwater guys. Our card punchers printed a human-readable
> version at the top of the card. And since the line printers were under
> the auspices of the system operators, one would not have wanted to wait
> for the printouts of a listing. I mean, in that case you'd have just
> run the program instead and waited for the printouts of the run. Or
> more likely, the post-mortem-dump.
>
> If you were lucky.
>
> Still have a COMPASS manual around. Put it up to Ebay at minimum
> starting price, but no takers.
>
> --
> David Kastrup
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- Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages (was: Way to flatten nested \include's?), (continued)
- Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages, Andrew Bernard, 2015/08/25
- Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages, Johan Vromans, 2015/08/25
- Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages (was: Way to flatten nested \include's?), Jacques Menu, 2015/08/25
- Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages, Werner LEMBERG, 2015/08/25
- Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages (was: Way to flatten nested \include's?), Johan Vromans, 2015/08/26
- Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages, David Kastrup, 2015/08/26
- Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages,
Jacques Menu <=
- Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages, David Kastrup, 2015/08/26
- Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages, Andrew Bernard, 2015/08/26
- Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages, Andrew Bernard, 2015/08/26
- Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages, Martin Tarenskeen, 2015/08/26
- Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages, Jacques Menu, 2015/08/26
- Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages, David Kastrup, 2015/08/26
- RE: OT: Beauty of programming languages, Mark Stephen Mrotek, 2015/08/26
- Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages, David Kastrup, 2015/08/26
- Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages, Phil Holmes, 2015/08/26
- Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages, Martin Tarenskeen, 2015/08/26