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Re: IDLWAVE Manuals: Your Support Needed [message #43327]

Thu, 31 March 2005 14:22

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Kenneth Bowman writes:

> Oh, don't get me started! I did my graduate work at an institution
> that made the same argument (punch cards = slow = thinking). My view, then
> and now, is that computer programming is fundamentally alien to human
> thought processes. I will always make typographical, syntactical, and
> logical errors when writing a program. I want to make (and correct)
> the errors *fast*. Thirty minutes (punch card turnaround time)
> to find a typo is torture.

You must not have had that little sloe-eyed beauty with
with the work-study job in the computer science building to
flirt with. It seemed like heaven to me. :-)

Cheers,

David

P.S. Let's just say that there are all kinds of reasons
to make errors in computer programs, but some are *definitely*
better than others!

--
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/

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		Re: IDLWAVE Manuals: Your Support Needed By: David Fanning on Thu, 31 March 2005 14:22
		Re: IDLWAVE Manuals: Your Support Needed By: K. Bowman on Thu, 31 March 2005 13:36
		Re: IDLWAVE Manuals: Your Support Needed By: David Fanning on Thu, 31 March 2005 08:41
		Re: IDLWAVE Manuals: Your Support Needed By: savoie on Thu, 31 March 2005 08:13
		Re: IDLWAVE Manuals: Your Support Needed By: Vince Hradil on Thu, 31 March 2005 07:09
		Re: IDLWAVE Manuals: Your Support Needed By: JD Smith on Wed, 30 March 2005 12:53
		Re: IDLWAVE Manuals: Your Support Needed By: savoie on Wed, 30 March 2005 09:33
		Re: IDLWAVE Manuals: Your Support Needed By: David Fanning on Wed, 30 March 2005 09:13
		Re: IDLWAVE Manuals: Your Support Needed By: savoie on Wed, 30 March 2005 09:07
		Re: IDLWAVE Manuals: Your Support Needed By: David Fanning on Wed, 30 March 2005 08:59

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