Absolutely BASED

The great Donald Knuth wrote the whole fucking TeX (one of the best program ever written) with a pencil and a paper.
The based Edsger Dijkstra doesn't even have a computer in his house.

These people learned to program before the advent of timesharing or any kind of interactive programming. You got limited time at a computer, so you didn't want any of that to go to waste -- you made damn sure that your shit worked beforehand. Unsurprisingly, some of the most enduring software comes from these eras -- where will electron js abortions be 30 years from now?

i finished my dissertation recently, and the one thing i severely overlooked was good, thorough design. i just sat down and started programming for the most part, but this was obviously a terrible idea. don’t ignore good design lads, makes life so much easier

I feel kinda sad that Multics acomplishments are acknowledged enough thanks to the Black Legend created by UNIX zealotry.
Writing with pen and paper is a great exercise. It also applies to music, creative writing, and almost anything that you can do with a computer now. It forces you to think ahead and it forces you to revaluate everything when you type it back to the PC.

>are not acknowledged
My bad.

>And people here shit on poojeets whose programming exams involve writing code with pencil and paper
my school had me write code on paper for an exam. also
>implying pajeets can do the same as the OP

this this this

sounds like a few guys decided to masturbate together and then jizzed on a biscuit. Now some other people have decided to masturbate each other off over a cup of cocoa and revived multics in 2017. Hmmm creamy cocoa. Careful what you drink, it may not be what you thought it was

wat

based schizoposter