Re: The Beauty of Finished Software

Ben Collver <bencollver@tilde.pink> writes:

Why would someone use such an old piece of software to write over
5,000 pages?

  A quotations about pencil programming:
     
|When I wrote TeX originally in 1977 and '78, of course I
|didn't have literate programming but I did have structured
|programming. I wrote it in a big notebook in longhand, in
|pencil. Six months later, after I had gone through the whole
|project, I started typing into the computer.

  , another one, about a different programmer named "André":

|He declined offers of typing help, and just kept writing away
|in pencil. He rewrote parts, copied things over, erased and
|rewrote. Finally André took his neat final pencil copy to a
|terminal and typed the whole program in (...) the VTOC
|manager worked perfectly from then on.

  .