Re: Emacs and long file names

[Warren <ve3wwg@gmail.com>]

Jeffrey R. Carter expounded in news:htjfib$cdd$1@tornado.tornevall.net:

> Adam Beneschan wrote:
>> 
>> Just kidding.  (Insert old joke with punchline "there's whiteout all
>> over your screen" here.)  But while I think some people are able to
>> cope without printouts, others sometimes need to have that piece of
>> paper to look at.  Don't ask me why.
> 
> I recall a study that determined that people found more errors in code
> when examining it on paper than on screen.

I find in my day job, that large (mainframe) COBOL 
programs are easier to debug in print form.  I know 
it is considered "old school" by my co-workers, but
I make a lot of use of those cross-reference listings
in my analysis. With COBOL, it is almost manditory
given that essentially everything is "global" to your 
code in paragraphs.

But for more modern languages, where you have proper
scoping rules at work, I wouldn't normally think of
printing out code.

Warren