10 Aug
2022
10 Aug
'22
12:52 a.m.
I'll confess: I was never very good at bench checking batch programs,
but only had at most a handful of assignments in college: generally
cycles were cheap on time-sharing systems and I quickly adapted to
interactive debugging.
Over time (with embedded systems in networking gear and other
applications), that wasn't possible and the new skill I admired was
being able to add effective logging to diagnose problems. And since most
of those systems were some combination of
real-time/multiprocessor/multithreaded, it was generally not possible to
deterministically repeat the sequence.
On 8/9/22 11:15 AM, Andrew Hume wrote:
rob, clem:
has there been a shift in ability? or is this more likely a sampling bias
(because there were so many fewer programmers then)?
On Aug 9, 2022, at 6:34 AM, Clem Cole
<clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
On Tue, Aug 9, 2022 at 2:12 AM Rob Pike <robpike(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I still marvel at the productivity and precision of his
generation of programmers.
Amen.