CM wrote: <snip> > what now strikes me as a Very Bad Habit, which is "poke and hope" > (trial and error) programming (of several names this page provided, I kind > of like that one): >
I recall when a "compile" took up to two days, before we got the punched paper tape to begin testing. If we wanted to "poke", it was done in hex. Once we got a local assembler/linker up and working, and (incremental) turnarounds were under 5 minutes, we thought we were in heaven. But the discipline of having to think it through was very good for us, in the long run. -- DaveA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
