As another dinosaur, I think we should promote Hans Passant's commentary in return.
In the old days, build programmers did not have very good debuggers or an operating system that allowed them to simultaneously debug and view code. Thus, the listing file that was formatted for the printer was a good way to look at the troubleshooting code. Paper consumption was colossal. - Hans Passant May 8 at 17:28
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