> Den 23. feb. 2014 kl. 21:37 skrev steve harley <[email protected]>: > > i didn't use punch cards much - at university i was lucky to plunge directly > into interactive CRT terminal use in 1978; on the side i had a research > assistantship with Arthur Swersey, a disarmingly non-conformant biz school > professor who wouldn't blink when i showed up at his office in bare feet and > cutoffs; one of my many tasks with Prof. Swersey was to set up some SIMULA > jobs to run on an IBM 360; i think that, about 1981, was my only contact with > punch cards, and it felt pretty old-fashioned
Nice, i learned Simula in 1984, but as a Norwegian invention (the first with object oriented programming?) I never realized that it was used much abroad. Other universities in Norway used Fortran. Punch cards were still used by some, but i remember a few years later the last secretary who had been a specialist on punch cards was retired. It was a bit strange. DagT -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
