> it had completely slipped by me that as late as the early 80's programmers were just still using pen and paper. Somehow, I have tended to imagine the days were thats what it meant to be a programmer to have existed in the same context as Alan Turing

seconded.

but then in another 15 or 20 years, people will probably be like, "wow, you needed a second monitor just to read documentation?" or "10 million lines of code was an acceptable size for a single application?" or something similar.

much respect & sorry about trampling the flowers, sirs.