Personally I've only used punch cards as free flash cards. My dad provided them as he retired legacy systems when I was in kindergarten.
FWIW I was in the basement of a large company 4 years ago and stumbled across two punch card machines that I thought were in storage, a week later I discovered them running a program. Today I'm working on updating a radar system from Vax/VMS to modern hardware. If anyone is interested in also working on updating a system written in Ada on VMS and moving it to Linux using Ada and C++ drop me a line. Richard J. Kolb On Thu, May 2, 2024 at 10:49 AM Mark E. Mallett <m...@schmem.com> wrote: > On Wed, May 01, 2024 at 07:52:37PM -0400, jon.maddog.h...@gmail.com wrote: > ... > > > So BASIC has a lot of detractors, mostly due to the infamous "GOTO". > > FORTRAN's "computed goto" put that to shame ;) > > > > So here is to you, BASIC! You moved a lot of people forward. > > Indeed. > > -mm- (no thanks on the supercomputer) > > > PS: Some time in the mid-70s I wrote a FORTRAN preprocessor that > allowed the use of symbolic labels. It could also renumber labels, > move format statements to their own section with their own number > grouping. A la ratfor I guess, tho I had never heard of that (it > sort of barely existed then anyway). > > PPS: I only ever took one language course in my ignoble time at college, > prior to the thing in the PS above. It was FORTRAN. I took it three > times because I failed it twice, me being a horrible student and > distracted by.. well, computers. The third time I got a D. The final > term project was returned with a red scrawl over the front page saying > "I asked for a project, not a thesis." That was sort of on my mind > because I think I had that printout up until about a week ago when it > was accidentally thrown out by somebody working on the house here. > > Ah, nostalgia. I remember that. > > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ >
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