Subject: Re: PG: Hackers and Painters
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.lang.lightweight
Date: 2003-05-16 12:49:58 GMT (6 years, 7 weeks and 32 minutes ago)
FWIW, the early Scheme interpreters were the result of pair programming (Sussman and I working together, and often trading places at the keyboard). The early Scheme papers were the result of pair writing, where if a paragraph wasn't flowing smoothly from one guy's fingers then the other would jump in with a reformulated sentence. And the first TECO macro to pretty-print Lisp code for EMACS (including making decisions about line breaks, not just how much to indent each line) was the result of a ten-hour pair-programming session with me at the keyboard and Stallman at my right elbow. --Guy