8 Dec
2007
8 Dec
'07
4:03 p.m.
On Dec 8, 2007 4:38 PM, Andrew Brouse brouse@music.mcgill.ca wrote:
An old-school hacker (poet turned progammer, classic!) once told me that he used to debug his programmes (on mainframes, with not even 1M of memory) by actually just watching a display of activity in all memory locations. After a while, he just subconsciously internalised what was going on and managed to debug the code.
I like that. It sounds strangely fulfilling. It's like a deaf composer writing a symphony. Cribbage was invented by a poet. Sometimes they surprise us! William Rowan Hamilton, on the other hand, was said to enjoy writing poems, and was encouraged to stick with math...
-Chuckk