In article <[email protected]>, Larry Martell <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 8:42 PM, Roy Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > In article <[email protected]>, > > rusi <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Kernighan and Ritchie set an important "first" in our field by making > >> "Hello World" their first program. > > > > Yup. > > > >> People tend to under-estimate the importance of this: > >> Many assumptions need to be verified/truthified/dovetailed > >> starting from switching on the machine onwards for this to work. > > > > At the time that they wrote it, very few people who used computers ever > > got anywhere near the power switch :-) > > Nope. Long before that I was working on computers that didn't boot > when you powered them up, You had to manually key in a bootstrap > program from the front panel switches. Or put a boot card in the reader and hit the IPL button :-) -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
