OFF-TOPIC:: Why Lisp is not my favorite programming language

Greg Ewing (using news.cis.dfn.de) wmwd2zz02 at sneakemail.com
Wed Mar 3 22:26:58 EST 2004


Dale King wrote:
> I would bet that there is somebody somewhere still programming in ENIAC
> assembly language.

Did ENIAC *have* an assembler? I thought it was programmed
with a patch panel.

(The word "patch" meant something quite different in those
days...)

-- 
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	
Christchurch, New Zealand
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg




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