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Article #620928Re: Computer science hot major in college (article)
From: AndyW
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2018 07:45
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2018 07:45
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On 22/02/2018 09:51, Bob Eager wrote: > I once saw a theory that programmers are carelewss with code because they > secretly enjoy the challenge of debugging! possibly true but not in my case, my dream is right-first-time code so I aim for it but the reality is lots of debugging so I make that bit easy. > 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... I do occasional dip into assembler, one of my computers in the 80s had an in-line 6502 assembler in basic. blisteringly fast when you are used to basic on a 1MHz machine. Never used BCPL. I do a lot of raspberry pi stuff so I use python a lot. Andy
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