Bob Pendleton wrote: >On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 20:00 +0000, Dave Mariner wrote: > > >>Yeah - a flame war would be pointless. Everyone knows that the only true >>l33t h4x0rs do all their c0din9 by toggling binary in through switches = >>on >>the front panel of their machines - any other way of coding would be = >>*far* >>to inefficient ;) >> >> >> > > > >Ya'know.... I've done that. Written assembly code, assembled it by hand, >and keyed it in on toggles from the front panel. I did it because that >was the only way to get code into the machine. That was a looong time >ago. Anybody who thinks that modern tools are too inefficient is going >to have to meet me in a dark alley at midnight with a prom burner and a >hex keypad.... > >Seriously, I have met a lot of people (all of the male persuasion) who >seem to be seriously hung up about using modern programming tools. I >have found one thing to be true of all of them, they all have very tiny, >teensy tiny, disks. And, often times they have processors that are so >slow they have not ball bearing fans. > >So, of course they are worried about how to store all that code and how >they are going to run it. Just like in the bad old days when we had slow >processors and little tiny disks and simply didn't have the space to >spend on tools like that. Back then the hardware was so limp (even the >disks were floppy) that we had to make up for our weak tools by spending >a huge amount of our own time doing pencil and paper coding and desk >checking. > >I'm so glad those days are past. > > Bob Pendleton > >P.S. > >I hope you caught the jokes and were not offended. If you didn't catch >the jokes, consider yourself lucky. :-) OTOH, if you got jokes, and were >offended, I apologize. > > Hahahaha you just made my day :) --------------------- To unsubscribe go to http://gameprogrammer.com/mailinglist.html