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From: nather@utastro.UUCP (Ed Nather)
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Subject: Re: C Programming Style -- New thought  ("writing code")
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Date: Wed, 24-Jul-85 10:30:31 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 24 10:30:31 1985
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> I find that one of the things that most affects my personal choice of
> program-formatting style is the number of lines on the console I work at.
> Most of my C coding is done sitting in front of old-style displays of 24 by
> 80 lines.  
> Jay Reynolds Freeman (Schlumberger Palo Alto Research)(canonical disclaimer)

I assume this means you "write code" directly at a terminal, using a text
editor, instead of the "venerable, traditional" way of writing it on paper
first, with a pencil (and a *large* eraser), and then entering the stuff
aftwerwards.

General question: does anybody "write code" on paper first any more?
-- 
Ed Nather
Astronomy Dept, U of Texas @ Austin
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