Also, for all but the richest programmers who had direct access to the computer, the typical experience was that you submitted your stack of cards at the end of

Also, for all but the richest programmers who had direct access to the computer, the typical experience was that you submitted your stack of cards at the end of the day and got a printout in the morning... Probably why my old programming teacher scorned our iterative approach to repeatedly stumbling upon syntax errors by hitting the 'compile' key and adding the missing commas.