Surely you meant "The only person I know to regularly write large programs in the present-day..." Writing code with pencil and paper was a normal undertaking w

Surely you meant "The only person I know to regularly write large programs in the present-day..." Writing code with pencil and paper was a normal undertaking well into the 80s. The alternative required either unreasonable hours at a console for days on end or an unreasonable number of unproductive hours each day.