Diary (November 7, 2020)

Online diary of Karl Jones for Saturday November 7, 2020.

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Diary

Learning to code

Teletype.

The primary point of learning to code is, as you say, a machine automation skill.

The intangible virtues include logical (or at least structured) thought.

Also, the ecstatic rush of me being 10 years old in 1971 and writing:

10 PRINT "KARL"
20 GOTO 10
RUN

My First Program

How the past must not be altered

Killing Hitler is the classic. There must be countless millions of time travellers who obsess about Killing Hitler — and every one of those obsessive time-travellers *must be stopped*.

Don't get me started on people who try to save JFK's hairdo from getting restyled in Dallas.

Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles