UNIX funny, classic computing relevant

Kelly Fergason wrote: just missed... mmm. I still smile when i think of drum card hacking and how that was so impressive to some people. anyone who used card for any length of time could fire off a drum card. it's the same today as firing off some emacs lisp to rebind a key. cards/batch imposed a certain discipline which was useful. I don't miss cards but being forced to review your code was a good thing, imho. oddly, I still spent 2 days finding a single character bug in fortran code (on cards) and much much later, 3 weeks finding a single character bug in C (on a unix box). some things don't change. heck, the other day I found a single character bug in some C code. #define blah (1 < 3) but it was *supposed* to be (1 << 3) I got 0 when I wanted 8. but it still compiled and ran. for weeks :-( -brad