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		WalterBright on Oct 9, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Writing code with pencil and paper (2022) During Christmas vacation while in college, I didn't have access to a computer. So I'd fill spiral notebooks with code. Even in college, the computer was in the computer center. So in the dorm I'd still code in spiral notebooks, listening to ELP and Jethro Tull. I kinda miss that a teensy bit.

arethuza on Oct 9, 2023 [–]

I remember one Easter break (1987) spending a couple of weeks at my parents working through lambda calculus examples by hand - which was extremely laborious and used lots of paper but actually got me to really like the topic.

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