🚀 go-pugleaf

On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 14:34:10 +0000, Scott Lurndal wrote:

> Bob Eager <news...@eager.cx> writes:
>>On Fri, 23 Feb 2018 15:36:15 +0000, jmfbahciv wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>>BCPL is good at that. In an uncontrolled, unchecked way!
>>
>>
>  How about BLISS?

BCPL is typeless too.

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