Fortran on punched cards! Those were the days. Punch your cards, take them to the processing room and hand the deck in through the window, collect them back four hours later wrapped in a printout, debug, repeat...
On Oct 3, 9:54 am, Russel Winder <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > signature.asc > < 1KViewDownload -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
