Yup. All the way up to my second year of college ('85), I'd very carefully plan and write code by hand -- either in BASIC or 6502 assembly -- edit it and "test" it on paper, all so when I got a period at school or 15 minutes for $0.25 at the local library I could make the most of the time at the keyboard.
I will never forget the thrill of keying in a moderately-sized program I'd hand-coded -- a few hundred lines probably -- running it, fixing one or two typos, and then having the program just work. I'm sure they had bugs, but the fact was all that hand-coding effort paid off as programs that ran successfully on the first try.
I will never forget the thrill of keying in a moderately-sized program I'd hand-coded -- a few hundred lines probably -- running it, fixing one or two typos, and then having the program just work. I'm sure they had bugs, but the fact was all that hand-coding effort paid off as programs that ran successfully on the first try.