> Try writing a few things yourself; you may rediscover the
> pleasures of coding by hand.
Coding in XPL, at which I am trying my hand (by hand!) somehow
reminds me of the old days of coding in assembler, which once
upon a time I did for a variety of systems. Of course XPL
operates at a much higher level than assembler, but perhaps
it's the short mnemonics that remind me of bygone days.
Assembler was tedious and slow to
effective and fast running. Today with fast machines we don't
mind slower run-times when we're talking milli- or even
micro-seconds; the tedium and slowness are the things we
avoid.
Not of course meaning to say that
--
Bob Newell
Honolulu, Hawai`i
- Via GNU-Linux/Emacs/Gnus/BBDB
David Auerbach
auerbach@xxxxxxxx