LOL. My first programming was at school using Fortran, pencilling out
the ovals on optical punch cards. We then had to send these away, and
got the result back a *week* later. Made debugging an awful long
process ;-)
On 21 Feb 2006, at 00:58, Harrie Westphal wrote:
I wonder how many of these people programmed on mainframe computers
in the late 60's, early 70's when you worked with keypunch cards
and had a great day when you could get two compiles in a day. No
GUI, just pure computational code. Now they scream when it takes 4
or 5 minutes. How times have changed.
Tony Spencer
St Rémy de Provence (13) France
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