On 01/20/2017 08:28 AM, Mike Loewen via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
On Fri, 20 Jan 2017, Alexander Pierson via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
At the same time I was wrestling with that, I did a historical paper on Pascal. In the process of researching it, I think that was the first time I was exposed to the concept of writing out a program by hand with pencil and paper before entering it onto a computer. That blew my mind, seeing as never thought of a time before text editors and glass terminals. I'm so used to instant gratification of finding syntactical errors and compiling at the drop of a hat. Then again, that dates me as an individual...
I should really give the alternative a try some time for the sake of perspective.
Welcome to the early 1970s. :-) Write your FORTRAN program down on coding forms:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/FortranCodingForm.png
I get in a lot of trouble when I'm engineering something because before I start doing, I start planning. I sit down and think first. My boss had a fit with me until I explained that I will be on schedule even though I had physically to show. I find it hard to believe that people can start doing without planning first. So the paper and pen (white board, markers and a camera) are my preferred method of starting a project. -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry@linuxha.com http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies