On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 8:42 PM, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote: > In article <a34ada67-aa04-4f4d-b26d-e941cee03...@googlegroups.com>, > rusi <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Kernighan and Ritchie set an important "first" in our field by making >> "Hello World" their first program. > > Yup. > >> People tend to under-estimate the importance of this: >> Many assumptions need to be verified/truthified/dovetailed >> starting from switching on the machine onwards for this to work. > > At the time that they wrote it, very few people who used computers ever > got anywhere near the power switch :-)
Nope. Long before that I was working on computers that didn't boot when you powered them up, You had to manually key in a bootstrap program from the front panel switches. (And no, this is not a takeoff of the Four Yorkshiremen sketch.) -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
