Even Older Man Yells At Whippersnappers

[justin walters]

On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 9:12 AM, Rhodri James <rhodri at kynesim.co.uk> wrote:

> On 19/09/17 16:59, Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> On 2017-09-19, Rhodri James <rhodri at kynesim.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> On 19/09/17 16:00, Stefan Ram wrote:
>>>
>>>> D'Arcy Cain <darcy at VybeNetworks.com> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> of course, I use calculators and computers but I still understand the
>>>>> theory behind what I am doing.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>     I started out programming in BASIC. Today, I use Python,
>>>>     the BASIC of the 21st century. Python has no GOTO, but when
>>>>     it is executed, its for loop eventually is implemented using
>>>>     a GOTO-like jump instruction. Thanks to my learning of BASIC,
>>>>     /I/ can have this insight. Younger people, who never learned
>>>>     GOTO, may still be able to use Python, but they will not
>>>>     understand what is going on behind the curtains. Therefore, for
>>>>     a profound understanding of Python, everyone should learn BASIC
>>>>     first, just like I did!
>>>>
>>>
>>> Tsk.  You should have learned (a fake simplified) assembler first, then
>>> you'd have an appreciation of what your processor actually did.
>>>
>>> :-)
>>>
>>
>> Tsk, Tsk.  Before learning assembly, you should design an instruction
>> set and implement it in hardare.  Or at least run in in a VHDL
>> simulator.  [Actually, back in my undergrad days we used AHPL and
>> implemented something like a simplified PDP-11 ISA.]
>>
>
> <yorkshireman>
> Eh, my school never 'ad an electronics class, nor a computer neither. Made
> programming a bit tricky; we 'ad to write programs on a form and send 'em
> off to next county.  None of this new-fangled VHDL neither, we 'ad to do
> our simulations with paper and pencil.
> </yorkshireman>
>
> (All true, as it happens.  My school acquired a computer (just the one: a
> NorthStar Horizon) in my O-Level year, but before that we really did have
> to send programs off to Worcester where someone would laboriously type them
> in for you.  A week later you got a print out of the results and a roll of
> paper tape with your program on it.)
>
>
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What happened if there was a bug? Did you have to re-send it?