...That reminds me of a cartoon I saw in an old Apple ][ magazine:

(One kid talking to another, with dad in the background hunched over an Apple ][.)

"Daddy's playing UCSD Pascal. That's the game where you try and see how many dots you can get before it beeps and you say nasty words."

http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/ti/professional/p-sys...

UCSD p-System Program Development (p. 2-4)

While the compiler is running, it displays a report of its progress on the screen in this manner:

    Pascal compiler - release level VERSION
    <   0> ...................
    INITIALIZE
    <  19> .......................................
    AROUTINE
    <  61> .......................................
    < 111> .......
    MYPROG
    < 119> ......................................

    237 lines compiled
    INITIALI .
    MYPROG ..

During the first pass, the compiler displays the name of each routine. In this example, INITIALIZE, AROUTINE, and MYPROG are the routines. The numbers enclosed within angle brackets, < >, are the current line numbers and each dot on the screen represents one source line compiled.