[Tutor] Decorators

Alan Gauld alan.gauld at freenet.co.uk
Wed Apr 12 00:34:51 CEST 2006


>> Ah, but by that standard even assembler is syntactic sugar, now
>> where are those hex codes and my keypunch? :-)
> Only those of us who keyed the bin loader into a PDP-8 by toggling 
> switches, each representing one bit, can claim to be the most free of 
> syntactic sugar.

Never used a PDP 8 (but I did use a PDP 11), but I have keyed binary 
boot sequences into a Data General machine in the late '70s using the 
front panel DIP switches

Alan G.


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