On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, John W. Baxter wrote: > On 8/9/06 7:04 AM, "Philip Hazel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > His program was 600 lines of Fortran > > with no comments, no function calls, no gotos, and no loops. He had just > > written out his entire computation serially. > > Ah, a modern guy: "lines" not "cards".
No, not modern. Even older than cards, as far as computers in Cambridge are concerned. The program was on paper tape (what I saw was a lineprinter listing). We didn't start to use cards here until 1972 when an IBM machine arrived. A regrograde step in the opinion of many (the cards, I mean :-) But, please, let's stop this thread here. I don't want a cards vs paper- tape flame war. That's kind of like re-fighting an ancient battle and I'm not into historical re-creation... -- Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book: http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-dev Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ##
