Author: Chris. Aubrey-Smith Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Installing extra programs on a fresh install of
Kubuntu
2008/8/29 Chris. Aubrey-Smith <cas194@???>
> Or machine code and moving pins around. Assembler? These youngsters don't
>
>> know they're born!
>
>
> Actually, in my day it were called SPS, or 'Symbolic Programming System',
> because Assembler hadn't been invented then.
>
> To (try to be) be serious for a moment, does anyone remember the series
> "Real Programmers", which was published in some magazine or other during the
> '60s? I recall, for example, 'Real programmers don't annotate their code. If
> it was difficult to write, then it should be difficult to read.'
>
> I was particularly amused by: 'Real programmers don't re-compile: they just
> patch the binaries!' This was clearly written by a later generation, because
> 'in my day' computer-time was so precious that this was how de-bugging had
> to be done.
>
> Ah! Nostalgia! (Well, it is Friday night!)
>
> Chris.
>
