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On 2018-02-23, AndyW <An...@nojunqmail.com> wrote:
> 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

>From memory, the original DOS  for the Amiga was not being completed,
so they got some guy from Cambridge U to write one in the time
allowed, and he did it in BCPL, AFAIK after, it took years to work
out some of the bugs. I forget his name, but remember him being
described as 'brilliant'.


-- 
greymaus.ireland.ie
Just_Another_Grumpy_Old_Man

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