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
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