> I remember when I started programming in COBOL on an IBM mainframe (which was located 8 miles away) you had to 

Yes, and we had to walk 10 miles in the snow to get there.
Uphill both ways.  :)

> "Desk checking" was a Good Thing!

Yes, I remember those days. You'd get your printout back and debug the
entire thing and retry.

Now, I just compile the sucker and fix the first few errors and try
again... Just to get my spelling mistakes out of the way.

The worst thing I ever did was to write and assembler for my homebrew
6502 system and have to hand assemble and then type it in by hand in
hex.

This is one of the reasons I'm a big fan of high-level languages now.
-- 
D. Jay Newman           ! DCX - it takes off and lands base down,
jay@sprucegrove.com     !       as God and Robert Heinlein intended.
http://enerd.ws/robots/ !
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