On Friday, December 30, 2016 06:40:31 AM Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Friday 30 December 2016 01:37:53 Xen wrote:
> > You do realize that coding implies hammering on a keyboard too, right?
>
> No, I do not realise that coding *implies* hammering on a keyboard. Coding
> the lazy modern way can be done via a keyboard. But coding itself most
> emphatically does not imply it.
>
> I knew I was old but ... I cannot even find a reference to coding without
> a keyboard. I had difficulty finding a reference to anything more basic
> and nearer to the CPU than Assembler.
>
> For the record, I (and surely at least one or two others on this list??!)
> remember coding with pin boards, sheets with squares, punched cards ...
> Taking a keyboard anywhere near a computer was a positively late addition
> to the peripherals available. ;-) It is certainly possible to code
> without one.
Well, just to add another viewpoint (and because it was (is?) a sore point
with me):
* I used to program on paper (and, really, still do on those rare
occasions)--I think out what I plan to do, even to the level of code or
pseudocode--then I go to a machine and enter what I've written (for me, the
first was paper tape on teletype machines, then punched cards)
* the sore point for me was having ("cowboy") programmers work with me,
who, imo, did more trial and error than planning--resulting in lots of errors
and delays...
Anyway, I'm pretty much past all that now ;-)
>
> Come to that, before the Ark we wrote without one too. ;-)
>
> Lisi
