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From: steffen@ihu1h.UUCP (Joe Steffen)
Newsgroups: net.lang
Subject: Re: Professionalizing Programmers, Going Off-line
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Date: Wed, 6-Jun-84 09:59:54 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun  6 09:59:54 1984
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If you are homesick for the bad old days, why stop with keypunching?  Why
not go back to entering programs via front panel switches?

This "Lets make it real hard to program so we do it right the first time."
attitude really irritates me.  I get a mental image of programmers sitting
at terminals in a Roman galley with slavedrivers whipping those programmers
that make a mistake, ala the movie Ben Hur.

Where does this mistaken idea come from?  I have programmed via switches,
plug board, keypunch, paper terminal, screen terminal, and bit-mapped
terminal.  My programs have been of the same quality regardless of input
device, but the time it takes to write and debug a program is much smaller
with the advanced input devices.
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	Joe Steffen, AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL, (312) 979-5381