dumb question [on scripting]

[Joe Zeff]

On 01/04/2012 11:27 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote:
> My machine code was when there was nothing else and my assembler was in
> the early video games days where all you got was a 4K cartridge and most
> of the time was spent trying to pack a much larger program into that
> bloody cartridge. But assembler was good for me in that it taught me
> alot about being clever and where one needed to be really clever.

But not as clever, I'll bet, as Mel, the Real Programmer: 
http://foldoc.org/The+story+of+Mel,+a+Real+Programmer