Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!udel!eplrx7!leipold From: leipold@eplrx7.uucp (Walt Leipold) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Know What You Are Doing Message-ID: <1991Apr1.190102.12345@eplrx7.uucp> Date: 1 Apr 91 19:01:02 GMT References: <49900005@primerd> Sender: usenet@ee.udel.edu Organization: DuPont Engineering Physics Laboratory Lines: 27 Nntp-Posting-Host: louie.udel.edu In article <49900005@primerd> os@primerd.prime.com writes: >Back in the old days people used to walk through their code offline. Now >we often twiddle until it compiles and the step thru with a debugger until >it works. We don't step back, offline, with a paper listing in hand to review >things by ourselves in a methodical manner. You know the (only) thing I miss from the ol' mainframe days? Fan-fold printer paper! I never got disoriented at a page boundary, the stuff was 132 columns wide so there was plenty of room for doodling alternate algorithms, the print was big (by modern standards), and if I got *really* confused, I found a long hallway, unrolled the entire source file, and crawled back and forth until I understood what was going on. Anybody know of a laser printer that handles fan-fold paper? My Imagewriter does, but it's not a *real* printer... >Jim Cook >Prime Computer, Inc. > (Don't email to os@primerd). -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "At twenty-six, Kate, though not Walt Leipold promiscuous, had slept with most (eplrx7!leipold) of the decent men in public life." (leipolw%esvax@dupont.com) -- The UUCP Mailer