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From: Neil Thompson
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2018 09:59

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On Wednesday, June 27, 2018 at 11:30:06 AM UTC+2, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Jun 2018 01:36:58 -0700 (PDT)
> Neil Thompson <albi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > You say that as if popping off to the pub while a compilation happens is
> > a bad thing...
> 
> 	It is when you discover that five minutes after you left it spat
> out a syntax error.
> 
> -- 
> Steve O'Hara-Smith                          |   Directable Mirror Arrays
> C:\>WIN                                     | A better way to focus the sun
> The computer obeys and wins.                |    licences available see
> You lose and Bill collects.                 |    http://www.sohara.org/

Hehe. True.  It was worse though when we submitted our compilations on punch cards and only got the errors and listings back a day later.  We used to check every card before submission.  Ah, the days when machine time was expensive and programmers were cheap :-P

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