On Thursday 11 August 2005 09:32 am, Grant Robinson wrote: > While we are on the subject, what I really miss is punch cards. Who > was the idiot who came up with typing a program into an editor and then > compiling and running it? Sure it's fast, but what if your computer > crashes and your hard drive goes on the fritz? There goes your code. > Myself, I will trust my programs to punch cards. That way I always > have a hard copy of all my code, and it can be run anytime I want. No > more trying to remember file names or worrying about backing up data. > Just get a file cabinet. Much cheaper than another hard drive. The > only thing that will destroy my code is a spilled drink, not forces of > nature or freak accidents. >
I'll bet you just love it when someone knocks them on the floor and you have to sort 4,000 cards (you did number them, right?)... or when the reader jams and shreds one... ;) -- Respectfully, Nicholas Leippe Sales Team Automation, LLC 1335 West 1650 North, Suite C Springville, UT 84663 +1 801.853.4090 http://www.salesteamautomation.com .-----------------------------------. | This has been a P.L.U.G. mailing. | | Don't Fear the Penguin. | | IRC: #utah at irc.freenode.net | `-----------------------------------'
