[AccessD] 30th Anniversary of ?Real Programmers Don?t Write Specs?- A funny little gem from the past

James Button jamesbutton at blueyonder.co.uk
Mon Jul 15 15:32:57 CDT 2013


And did you know it takes 12 bytes of code to low-level format all the 
drives on a PC,
14 bytes if you want to stop after a specific drive.
And that code is easy to put into the Boot area of a floppy
Who needs to use commands like
Format c: <"Y"

Wadda you mean you can't read machine code!

JimB

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Arthur Fuller" <fuller.artful at gmail.com>
To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" 
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Sent: Monday, July 15, 2013 8:58 PM
Subject: Re: [AccessD] 30th Anniversary of ?Real Programmers Don?t Write 
Specs?- A funny little gem from the past


>I think that one statement was omitted:
>
> Real programmers don't write for compilers; they write compilers; and if
> you haven't written a language / compiler, then you're a wuss.
>
> A.
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