you know your a geek when :-) On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 1:23 AM, Dazed_75 wrote: > Old-school programming techniques you probably don't miss > > http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9132061 > > but I do miss those exciting days, nights and weekends.  I remember one of > my programs failing and crashing the computer at the university of Minnesota > and none of the teachers could figure out how until they sent me to the > professor who had written the fortran compiler.  When he couldn't see what > was wrong either he gave me a special card to put in my deck to use his > unlimited account to print a memory dump after every instruction.  After 5 > cases of paper printed he determined I had overrun a buffer and overwritten > a portion of memory used by the security system. > > Stuff like writing a ONE card program to duplicate a card deck when no one > had ever done it in less than three cards. > > Oh, the memories.  :) > -- > Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss