Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Thursday 2006-11-09 at 19:03 -0800, Kai Ponte wrote:
When I code something, I do it in Pascal. I thought real programmers write code at the command line: in DOStalk, copy con filename.exe
:-) X'-)
It's been a long time since I heard that one. I wonder how many here even actually know what that one is anymore. :P
Not many, I guess.
But I remember buying the old pcmagazine and typing rows of hexadecimal as "data" lines for a basic program that would then create a tiny .com program like "ted.com". There were things like modems, I had heard, but a transatlantic phone call to get a file was totally out of the question for a student like me. Pretty close to "copy con..." I guess ;-)
That's why I don't use Vi. Too many bad memories of edlin, followed by copy con.
Next thing you'll be doing is telling me to cat something.
Nope! I come from Dos times, I sharpened my teeth on it, not on windows, nor on unix. When I discovered Linux I was very happy to find the "dos" that never were! I mean, I could do in a command line things I had been waiting for but never came to be in Dos. I still have difficulties with some pitholes the linux command line has for dos oldtimers.
You know, older programmers could have a joke like real programming was done with physical switches; there were old computers you actually had to load the initial boot program into memory, programming word by word flipping switches. Or so I have been told. Cute :-)
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