1€ question for the young : whom does EWD stand for, and did he bring to computer science?
JM > Le 26 août 2015 à 13:12, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> a écrit : > > Johan Vromans <jvrom...@squirrel.nl> writes: > >> On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 18:41:54 +0200 >> Jacques Menu <imj-muz...@bluewin.ch> wrote: >> >>> In the APL course I took years ago, the teacher said: « Exercice for the >>> next two weeks : find out what this sample program (25 symbols >>> altogether) does. A guy says two weeks later: « It does this and that… >>> but it took me two and a half hours to find out! » And teacher answers: « >>> Well, it took me two hours to write! » >> >> I recall that crucial to APL was its interactive environment. We had >> dedicated ttys with APL keys. Program development was adding one symbol at >> a time, trying what happened. Repeat until the program was finished. >> >> For real programming we wrote Algol on punch tapes, later punch cards. >> Turnaround time was one day, so you wrote the program, printed it, > > You poor backwater guys. Our card punchers printed a human-readable > version at the top of the card. And since the line printers were under > the auspices of the system operators, one would not have wanted to wait > for the printouts of a listing. I mean, in that case you'd have just > run the program instead and waited for the printouts of the run. Or > more likely, the post-mortem-dump. > > If you were lucky. > > Still have a COMPASS manual around. Put it up to Ebay at minimum > starting price, but no takers. > > -- > David Kastrup > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
