On Sat, 8 Dec 2007, Bryan Jurish wrote:
In fact, i recently spent about 2 days chasing a bug in some old code of
mine that i only managed to track down by looking at the literal memory
positions, and if I had had a spiffy blinky pseudo-analogue StarTrek
kind of data display, I probably would hav
morning all,
On 2007-12-08 21:08:29, Mathieu Bouchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> appears to
have written:
> On Sat, 8 Dec 2007, Andrew Brouse wrote:
>
>> An old-school hacker (poet turned progammer, classic!) once told me
>> that he used to debug his programmes (on mainframes, with not even 1M
>> of mem
On Sat, 8 Dec 2007, Andrew Brouse wrote:
An old-school hacker (poet turned progammer, classic!) once told me that
he used to debug his programmes (on mainframes, with not even 1M of
memory) by actually just watching a display of activity in all memory
locations. After a while, he just subconsc
On Dec 8, 2007 4:38 PM, Andrew Brouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> An old-school hacker (poet turned progammer, classic!) once told me that
> he used to debug his programmes (on mainframes, with not even 1M of
> memory) by actually just watching a display of activity in all memory
> locations. Af
On Sat, 8 Dec 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
>> As for Pd vs. C, there was a time in the not-so-distant past where
>> programmers thought that compilers were horribly inefficient, and that
>> they were only really good for prototyping things.
