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- Subject: Re: Throwback
- From: Rob Kendrick <rjek@...>
- Date: Wed, 13 May 2015 15:19:38 +0100
On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 07:18:03AM -0700, Coda Highland wrote:
> On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 6:41 AM, Rob Kendrick <rjek@rjek.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 10:37:51AM -0300, Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:
> >> > I was pleased to get an email from a man who wanted to introduce
> >> > his son to programming using Lua. He ended his email with:
> >> >
> >> > > Anyway, my conclusion is this would be a good way to introduce my son to
> >> > > programming, but the main obstacle is the debugging! Throwback into the
> >> > > editor would be ideal, if that could be arranged.
> >>
> >> Come on, teach the kid the right way! Print debugging is the way to go :-)
> >
> > Oscilloscope attached to a pin on the parallel port or nothing.
> >
>
> I have literally done exactly this before (okay, it was a GPIO pin,
> not a parallel port). It's fun. :P
It is not fun. Especially when you're using it to debug the initial
program loader on an x86 system :)
B.
