throw in a water cooled system that was ALWAYS springing leaks forcing immediate shutdown (CDC cyber computer) and you DID )SAVE OFTEN
On Sat, 22 Apr 2017 10:05:20 -0400 Peter Teeson <peter.tee...@icloud.com> wrote: > LOL! > In the early days of SHARP APL there was a message when you logged on to our > IBM Model 50 mainframe time sharing system. > It was SAVE OFTEN! The interpreter was written in Assembly language and > bugs would crash the system. > The dreaded CLEAR WS was the result….By the time the code was converted to > “C” it had become very stable… > > FWIW > > I personally design in very small increments and )SAVEing a lot. This is a > > habit that I acquired when working > > with MS Windows because Windows programs (in particular MS Word) tended to > > crash for no reason and then you > > were lucky to have a very recent backup. >
