There still are a couple of us around who cut our teeth first on big, monster vacuum tube computers with binary on off switches as our first introduction to programming.
The programmers used to come up to Poughkeepsie to use our computers in production test to debug the first Fortran package and when they had it kinda working they gave us two card decks, one was the Fortran program and the second was the game of NIM.
Then Symbolic Assembler came about, wow!
That's when I decided it was easier to use software to diagnose bugs than to stab the thing to death ?with ?a scope probe.
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Bob Bellizzi
The Corneal Dystrophy Foundation
