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The Trick to Going Faster in Software Development is to Take Smaller Steps (medium.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

Some of us will even remember when compilers ran on big central computers, and you might have to wait 15โ€“30 minutes to find out if your code was syntactically correct (let alone if it worked.)

My father remembers when he wrote code printed on a set of punched cards, they traveled several hours on an evening train to a warehouse with a big government statistics computer (that was too busy during daytime), the result came back by train next morning. Syntax error? try again tomorrow...