Re: WWW/Internet 2009: 2nd CFP until 21 September

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"paul c" <toledobythesea (AT) oohay (DOT) ac> wrote

Quote:

Walter Mitty wrote:
...
I was once an assembly language type myself. ...

A boss once said to me "you assembler programmers can never see the big
picture". I think there is some pernicious truth in this, the bare-mental
mentality that creeps into one's perspective reminds me of the disjointed
murals from the 13th century before painters discovered visual
perspective. It didn't matter if the figures were in the foreground or
background, the person who was taller in real life was taller in the
mural.

When I think of the crazy stuff I wrote in assembler in the 1960s, it makes
me want to weep. What a waste of good intellect! But hey, I was smart but
ignorant. It goes with being young.

One of the things that kept me wired into assembler for so long was
interactive debugging. Interactive debugging in higher level languages was
painful, because the tools were not well worked out. But interactive
debugging of assembler code was easy. Too easy. I didn't start learning
how to write bug free code until I got away from interactive debugging.

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