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" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> 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. > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com