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My father, a programmer who got his start in the punch card era, was the same way, but I never had the mental capacity for this. I need to start writing before
by vsnf 3y ago
My father, a programmer who got his start in the punch card era, was the same way, but I never had the mental capacity for this. I need to start writing before I can concretely hold anything in my mind. The structure of the program, and the output feedback loop into themselves and emerge more or less simultaneously.
- jacquesm 3y agoI'm pretty sure you have the mental capacity, you just don't have a concrete need for doing it that way. It's like having the capacity to walk from here to Paris (wherever you are, pick a large city a few hundred km away). You can do it. But you never will and so you won't know that you actually have that capacity. But if the real need arose and you had no other alternatives suddenly the impossible would be possible.