pshaw ... how dare you expect me to click through a link for context
And the answer is still 'yes'.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Tue 3 Sep 2013, 18:44, 1 reply)

Meh.
It's just how it were done in them days.

Those were the really great days of programming, where you could whittle your own logic gates from lumps of coal and you could leave your back doors open at all hours of the day and night, and if you coded a bug a copper would give you a clip round the ear and nothing more was said about it, not like today, oh no, all health and safety this and Haskell compiler that, I wouldn't give a tuppeny decoupling capacitor for the lot of them, what do they know, I bet they never had to whittle their own logic gates...
( Amish Information Systems hates misplaced, commas, Tue 3 Sep 2013, 20:31, closed)

No. It's how fucking idiots did it in those days.
Which is where we came in.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Tue 3 Sep 2013, 21:45, closed)

I resemble that remark.
Plus, I dispute your sporting credentials.

Plus, they used to publish hex programs in magazines. Have you never typed in a hex dump from a magazine? No? Then I win.
( Amish Information Systems hates misplaced, commas, Wed 4 Sep 2013, 9:45, closed)

I copied hex from sinclair user like any other nerd my age
That's just a (monumentally daft) way of distributing software. Actually writing the software in raw hex is a completely different thing. For fucking idiots.

And I've written several compilers and I've met Steve Vickers so I think my sporting credentials are OK.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Wed 4 Sep 2013, 10:03, closed)