On Mon, 2011-10-03 at 10:42 +0200, Matthew Farwell wrote: > Fortran? COBOL? You were lucky! When I started programming, I had to > punch cards using me own tongue, and if you missed an ole, your father > used to beat you until you were dead, to get a slot on machine, we > used to have to get up half an hour before we went to bed, etc. etc.
<yorkshire-men-sketch-accent> Luxury. </yorkshire-men-sketch-accent> And yes we were using punch cards, but with a proper machine rather than the manual ones. Another skill that has been lost is editing large rolls of paper tape -- far harder than editing punch card decks. BTW Fortran is a not-bad language, unlike FORTRAN. -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:[email protected] 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: [email protected] London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
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