If batch programming had not existed long before, he would have reinvented it. :-) Heck, my first exposure to programming was by way of a textbook that used a

If batch programming had not existed long before, he would have reinvented it. :-) Heck, my first exposure to programming was by way of a textbook that used a nonexistant decimal machine's assembler; presumably I could have submitted my code to a simulator had I been attending the right college, but I was only in seventh grade at the time. Show of hands: who hasn't ever played computer with their code?