In article <mailman.3950.1386814058.18130.python-l...@python.org>, Larry Martell <larry.mart...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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. Or put a boot card in the reader and hit the IPL button :-) -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
