Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 23:22:45 -0500 From: Gary Corcoran <garycorc@mail.idt.net> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.de> Cc: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>, FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Who needs Perl? (Was: cvs commit: src/share/doc/handbook ...) Message-ID: <32913615.72A2@mail.idt.net> References: <199611180926.KAA27749@freebie.lemis.de>
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Greg Lehey wrote: > Real Programmers code in hex. Fortran programmers are wimps who don't > understand computers :-) This is true... 8-) Back in the Good Old Days (tm) of my new Radio Shack Color Computer (circa 1982), when I had no assembler, I used to program it in hex (it used the superb 6809 8-bit processor). Of course, this only lasted until I wrote myself an assembler... Amazing what you used to be able to do in a 5K program... <smile> Gary
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