Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!udel!haven.umd.edu!socrates.umd.edu!socrates!rockwell From: rockwell@socrates.umd.edu (Raul Rockwell) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: scheme [Re: What does an anti-perl look like] Message-ID: Date: 25 Jun 91 02:26:44 GMT References: <2714@amix.commodore.com> <57060@nigel.ee.udel.edu> Sender: rockwell@socrates.umd.edu (Raul Rockwell) Organization: Traveller Lines: 23 In-Reply-To: new@ee.udel.edu's message of 24 Jun 91 18: 01:24 GMT Me:>> [And an inability to debug in an interactive environment >> suggests a severe lack of discipline.] Rich Skrenta: > 2) Good thing all of those nasty undisciplined Fortran > programmers debugging their card stacks between batch runs > are gone. Darren New: Actually, having done both, I would say an inability to debug in a batch environment suffests a lack of discipline, and an inability to debug in an interactive environment suggests inadequate tools. Yeah. Except I'd say that an inability to debug in a batch environment suggests a lack of paper ;-) Define the ability and inclination to make tools you need as "discipline" and you'd have the gist of what I was trying to say. -- Raul