15 Responses to “Quite pessimistic”

1. teju

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   Mel Kaye

   
   
2. VikraM

   Mel Kaye, the Real Programmer..

   
   
3. prasanth

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   Mel kayes

   
   
4. udupendra

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   Unless I am missing something, it’s Mel Kaye of the story of Mel fame – but why would you show a visual with the name not even blanked out?

   
   
5. Mahesh

   Mel Kaye, the legendary programmer who programmed in binary. He wokred on the LGP-30, The pictures above are of programs written for LGP-30. He called his time-delay location as “most pessimum”. Read more about “The Story of Mel” in http://www.jargondb.org/the_story_of_mel

   
   
6. Madan

   ANS: Mel Kaye …http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Kaye…

   
   
7. Gammafunction

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   This is about Mel Kaye- the archetypal ‘real’ programmer-the guy who wrote in pure unadorned machine code.He introduced the funda of relativistic optimality The original prose version here: http://catb.org/esr/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html After countless hours of skulduggery in Mu:P and Mu:C this guy’s skills seem godly. “every single instruction was followed by a GO TO! Put that in Pascal’s pipe and smoke it.”

   
   
8. Goutham

   Donald Knuth

   
   
9. Goutham

   He would pay 2.56$ for every mistake found in TAOCP

   
   
10. Shreyas

    Mel Kaye – The Real Programmer

    
    
11. Biki

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    mel kaye ..”real programming”

    
    
12. sidsen

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    mel kaye

    
    
13. yaksha

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    [rip] The LGP-30, standing for Librascope General Purpose and then Librascope General Precision connect ACT-III programming language [/rip]

    
    
14. nishas thambi

    Mel Kaye

    
    
15. Ganesh Prasad

    Mel Kaye