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Re: IDLWAVE Manuals: Your Support Needed [message #43328 is a reply to message #43327]

Thu, 31 March 2005 13:36

K. Bowman
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Registered: May 2000

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In article <MPG.1cb5d5f06d3f79309899a8@news.frii.com>,
David Fanning <davidf@dfanning.com> wrote:

> savoie@nsidc.org writes:
>
>> I would have just taken vacation, or more likely sick. When my emacs is
>> crippled it's like trying to program with crayons, or I imagine it's like
>> punch cards.
>
> At least with punch cards, you learned to think. Younger
> programmers, lacking the discipline of heavy typewriter keys and
> unforgiving chads, tend to type first and think later, it
> seems to me. Perhaps that's what RSI has in mind with the
> standard UNIX interface---slow everyone down and give them
> a chance to write better programs. Good on ya', as the Aussies
> say! :-)
>
> Cheers,
>
> David

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.

Ken

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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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