On 07/17/2010 04:59 AM, pyt...@bdurham.com wrote: > Tim, > >> 2.x?! You were lucky. We lived for three months with Python 1.x in a septic >> tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, write our 1.x code >> using ed, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down in machine language, >> fourteen hours a day, > week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad > would thrash us to sleep wi' his belt... > > Luxury. Our computers only had 256 bytes[1] of RAM and We had to enter > our code, in the dark, using loose binary toggle switches with poor > connections. We used to have to get out of the lake at three o'clock in > the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of hot gravel, go to work at > the mill every day for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would beat > us around the head and neck with a broken bottle, if we were LUCKY! > > [1] http://incolor.inebraska.com/bill_r/elf/html/elf-1-33.htm
In slightly related news, I just stumbled upon this: http://catb.org/esr/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html Now of course, he had it tough. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
