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Article #620915Re: Computer science hot major in college (article)
From: jmfbahciv
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2018 15:36
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2018 15:36
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Bob Eager wrote: > 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! > I liked indirection and indexing. /BAH
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