[deleted] t1_iy0xswa wrote
drewcomputer t1_iy13pi1 wrote
You can absolutey write a program or algorithm without running it on a computer. Turing published Turing machines long before they ran on silicon, and Ada Lovelace wrote software for a computer that wasn’t built in her lifetime. The first virus implemented in Assembly directly cited and built out Von Neumann’s work.
hux t1_iy1gzp1 wrote
I would argue that unless you can sit at a terminal and wonder why your program does not work, then make a trivial and meaningless change which causes it to work but should not, then you haven’t really written software.
A1_B t1_iy1q9wc wrote
> I understand exactly how viruses work. I was responsible for delivering anti-virus definitions to 100s of 1000s computers in a very large network. In fact, I'm an author of a patent for software delivery.
Wow, appeal to authority, very smart.
Too bad you're objectively wrong, and those credentials are kind of pathetic.
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