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1. steeph 🎆 ٩(˘◡˘)۶ (steeph@todon.eu)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Jan-2023 04:21:18 JST steeph 🎆 ٩(˘◡˘)۶

   An educational film (in this case literally film) from 1975 about how to prevent programming errors:

   Critical Program Reading
   https://invidious.slipfox.xyz/watch?v=7hdJQkn8rtA

   Besides the actual lessons (readability/naming convention, formatting, structuring, difference between coding and programming), I liked these parts:

   "Nothing is wrong with you. Remember: Criticise the programme, not the people."

   "That's hard for me." - "Don't apologise. Nobody uses his brain more than necessary."

   • Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Jan-2023 04:26:13 JST Adrian Cochrane

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     @steeph That was a piece of history, informing the design of the languages we use today!

     And is still relevant!

   • steeph 🎆 ٩(˘◡˘)۶ (steeph@todon.eu)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Jan-2023 14:45:39 JST steeph 🎆 ٩(˘◡˘)۶

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     • Adrian Cochrane

     @alcinnz Mostly, yes. But I wanted to correct them about that statement that computers cannot understand structure from formatting. I guess there was no language that did that at the time.