[thechat] Binary Code of Computers

Martin martin at members.evolt.org
Thu May 9 03:54:01 CDT 2002


On Thursday, May 9, 2002, at 09:07  am, Andrew Forsberg wrote:

> Lol! I remember, between the ages of 8 and 12, taking excerpts from PC
> magazine and typing them via echo copy con to files for PC DOS's debug
> (yea, not MS DOS ... there really was a PC DOS :) )

Feh. Sinclair or Commodore (as in Pet, not C64) BASIC

Also did the wierd characters in a big REM statement.

I remember feeling that buying a compiler was cheating

>   Not to mention how often these (oh so well edited) articles had TYPOs
> in the code that you had to try to debug without much of a clue as to
> what the code was trying to do .... Yuck City!

Debugging code is a great way to learn - I picked up most of
my Perl debugging Matt Wright stuff.

Cheers
Martin
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