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I recently read Weinberg's Psychology of Computer Programming, which was written at about the time that time-sharing operating systems (like Unix) began to push out batch computing systems. This is exactly the sort of thing he was concerned about.

When you have a long turnaround time for feedback, you get a strong incentive to "desk check" before you send off your work.




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