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Re: My First Computer (was Computing Editorial)

Subject: Re: My First Computer (was Computing Editorial)
From: "Really" <barryem@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2003 17:02:33 GMT
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"Exegete" <millers@noneofyourbusiness.com> wrote in message
3E60D1EA.2090900@noneofyourbusiness.com">news:3E60D1EA.2090900@noneofyourbusiness.com...
>
> > I went to a programming school in the 60's and the first thing
we
> > learned after some basic theory was assembly language.  After
that
> > Cobol.  Later RPG, which I never actually used except in
school.
> >
[Stuff deleted]
> >
> > Also, the ability to view the program in a debugger, watching
it in
> > assembly as it goes along, knowing precisely what is going on
every
> > step of the way, gives the programmer a debugging tool that can
> > only be replaced by guesswork.
> >
> > Barry
>
> Thanks for the lesson in programming Barry

Your welcome.  Thanks for the snide answer.

Hopefully some others recognized that what I said was directed at
programmers.

Barry

Follow-Ups:
- Re: My First Computer (was Computing Editorial)
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References:
- Computing Editorial (please read)
  - From: pap3@dana.ucc.nau.edu (Paul Allen Panks)
- Re: Computing Editorial (please read)
  - From: Lee Hart <leeahart@earthlink.net>
- Re: Computing Editorial (please read)
  - From: pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)
- Re: Computing Editorial (please read)
  - From: Lee Hart <leeahart@earthlink.net>
- Re: Computing Editorial (please read)
  - From: pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)
- My First Computer (was Computing Editorial)
  - From: Lee Hart <leeahart@earthlink.net>
- Re: My First Computer (was Computing Editorial)
  - From: Glen <lpepicel@nycap.rr.com>
- Re: My First Computer (was Computing Editorial)
  - From: Lee Hart <leeahart@earthlink.net>
- Re: My First Computer (was Computing Editorial)
  - From: Glen <lpepicel@nycap.rr.com>
- Re: My First Computer (was Computing Editorial)
  - From: Lee Hart <leeahart@earthlink.net>
- Re: My First Computer (was Computing Editorial)
  - From: "Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch" <bj_666@gmx.net>
- Re: My First Computer (was Computing Editorial)
  - From: Lee Hart <leeahart@earthlink.net>
- Re: My First Computer (was Computing Editorial)
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- Re: My First Computer (was Computing Editorial)
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