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My version of taking a cold shower is to re-read von Neumann, J., Goldstine, H. H. Planning and Coding of Problems for an Electronic Computing Instrument (1947)
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My version of taking a cold shower is to re-read von Neumann, J., Goldstine, H. H. Planning and Coding of Problems for an Electronic
Computing Instrument (1947) to realise how much JvN et. al.* had already learned about writing and debugging code.
* let's not forget https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klára_Dán_von_Neumann https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klára_Dán_von_Neumann !
- nicklecompte 3y agoAn excellent quote from TAoCP Volume 1: > Up to a point it is better to let the snags [bugs] be there than to spend such time in design that there are none (how many decades would this course take?). — A. M. Turing, Proposals for ACE (1945)
- worik 3y agoThank you for the link to Klara I had no idea. What a sad story.