[rescue] For fans of much older stuff: www.6502.org

[nimitz at ns1.nimitzbrood.com]

> On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Sheldon T. Hall wrote:
> 
> > Various folks wrote ...
> >
> > > > > Apparently I used to scare the hell out of people at school
> > > > > by writing and debugging stuff in machine code (via a hex-based
> > monitor
> > > >
> > > > Machine code--that's hard core!
> > >
> > > I did that too, indeed, I had a BBC B at home.
> >
> > So, like, which one of you guys is Mel, the Real Programmer?
> 
> Dunno. Is he the guy that invented those new-fangled things, like
> object-oriented programming and code comments?

Auugh!  You profane the name of the mighty Mel!

Read this then despair:

http://www.farid-hajji.net/fun/cj-progmachine.html

Ignore the forward.  This story IIRC is also in the Jargon File.

;-)

Mike Hebel