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From: cdash@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Charles Shub)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: a point to ponder
Message-ID: <2103@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
Date: 7 Jul 88 03:36:24 GMT
References: <82400008@p.cs.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: cdash@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Charles Shub)
Organization: University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
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In article <82400008@p.cs.uiuc.edu>, gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
> Think back a mere 15 years --
> how was computer science taught at the major schools?  People
> submitted card decks to computer operators and picked up their
> printouts [ much much ] later.  

And because of the turnaround, we wrote programs differently than we do now.
We would find the errors instead of letting the compiler do it. Is the change
in how we write and debug code for the better or the worse ?  Why ?
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