🚀 go-pugleaf

On Thu, 22 Feb 2018 19:29:18 +0000, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

> On 2018-02-22, Bob Eager <news...@eager.cx> wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, 22 Feb 2018 08:39:59 +0000, AndyW wrote:
>>
>>> On 22/02/2018 07:54, Charles Richmond wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Debugging can be challenging, but *not* as repugnant and off-putting
>>>> as cutting up a human body IMO.  Some few actually enjoy debugging...
>>>> I've not been in that rare company myself.
>>> 
>>> I have to admit that I find debugging more satisfying than coding. I
>>> used to gear my coding towards debugging with accessible variables,
>>> clear structure etc. I was always later than my colleagues finishing
>>> the coding but usually I was one of the first to complete debuggung
>>> and testing.
>>
>> I once saw a theory that programmers are carelewss with code because
>> they secretly enjoy the challenge of debugging!
>>
>> Python? Try assembly language - or, if you are old enough to remember
>> BCPL, that's a language where you can store the address of some code in
>> a label and GOTO somewhere completely different...
> 
> ALTER ENTER-GOLDILOCKS TO PROCEED TO HASTY-RETREAT.
> 
> See, you can even do it in COBOL.  Who needs assembly language to do
> instruction modification?

I'll raise you a table of octal values, then GOTO to the start of the 
table for some embedded code!

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