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by eru 3432 days ago
> The thing is that there was a lot about those old systems that was slow, so you were very, very careful how you programmed.

That's a common sentiment. I wish I could find the quote by someone who made the transition; it was about how happy they were to be able to compile so much quicker, and how getting immediate feedback made them so much more productive.
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3n7r0pY 3432 days ago
The notion of waiting ages for programs to compile or assemble is mostly related to the older hardware.

I compile/assemble COBOL and IBM's assembly language on a z13 daily and it's pretty much instantaneous.

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eru 3431 days ago
> The notion of waiting ages for programs to compile or assemble is mostly related to the older hardware.

Oh, I was talking more about older ways to organize the data centre: batch vs timeshare processing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-sharing

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