On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 10:55 AM, Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> wrote: > Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> writes: >> Yes, and we didn't have Python then. When I had a computer with 640KB >> of memory, my options were (1) BASIC or (2) 8086 assembly language, >> using DEBUG.EXE and its mini-assembler. Later on (much much later), I >> added C to the available languages, but it was tedious and annoying, >> because one tiny change meant minutes of compilation. > > 1. check this out: http://prog21.dadgum.com/116.html >
Judge him by his size, do you? But out of 20MB, I easily had *space* for a compiler. The problem was compilation time. I could mess around in BASIC with reasonable turnaround times; I could mess around in DEBUG with excellent turnaround times. Doing even the tiniest work in C meant delays long enough to go do something else. How times have changed. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
