On Wed, Mar 8, 2023 at 1:21 PM Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com> wrote:

I really miss terminal rooms. I learned so much looking over the
shoulders of more experienced people.

Amen bro.. Funny Guy Almes and I were chatting about this last week WRT to some CMU history.

I've observed that the theory could be learned in lectures and reading books, but the art is taught to an apprentice by a master - carefully looking over her/his shoulder, trying it yourself, being self-critical of your work, as well as taking advice/critical observations from others -- then little by little learning to appreciate what works. That was all so much easier in a terminal room.

Or as I sometimes have said to students: "Hacking is done in the privacy of your office between you and your computer terminal. Programming may start in private, but needs the public transparency of the other eyes and thoughts if you want it to be useful for a long time."