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From: dweller@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (David Weller)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Student views on Ada
Date: 23 Sep 1994 10:13:48 -0500
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Date: 1994-09-23T10:13:48-05:00
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In article <35ukdh$185r@watnews1.watson.ibm.com>,
Norman H. Cohen <ncohen@watson.ibm.com> wrote:
>In article <35s3lc$69h@gnat.cs.nyu.edu>, dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
>writes: 
>
>|> Marin, front panel lights are for sissies! The first time I programmed
>|> an Incoterm terminal, I had to enter a boot loader from the keyboard
>|> one hex digit at a time, completely blind with no feedback of any kind
>|> at all. It took 600 keypresses to enter it. Now that's REAL programming :-)
>
>Robert, hex digits are for sissies!  I once programmed a PC with Cassette
>Basic.  It made assembly language, with its symbolic labels, seem
>high-level.  Now that's REAL programming! :-)
>
>(Unfortunately, since the PC did not have a cassette player attached, I
>was unable to save the program.)
>

Oh, yeah?  Well, I can write that program in THREE lines!  Standing
on one foot.  Underwater.  While making bandwidth-wasting posts to
Internet AT THE SAME TIME! 

	:-)	:-)	:-)	:-)

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