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Take cobol. The data division is highly column based, not mandatory though but you never get any of the columns straight except the first one. It will work but
by iefbr14 3y ago
Take cobol. The data division is highly column based, not mandatory though but you never get any of the columns straight except the first one. It will work but its hard on the eyes.
Take (ibm) assembler, it sometimes needs a continuation character in column 72. Where is column 72 in proportional?
- rpastuszak 3y agohehe, I can live with that, I punch my cards by hand like a true 10x engineer.
- CoastalCoder 3y agoPunch cards??? Luxury! Why, when I was a lad, we had to punch paper tape by hand! And it wasn't any of this buy-it-by-the-roll stuff either. My da' would send me to the woods, and I'd have to chew a branch for a week to make my own paper!
- wredue 3y agoBack in my day we had real man’s trees rather than the silly “programmer” soft lad trees. It took us a MONTH to chew our punch cards.
- bratgpttamer 3y agoReal Programmers don't use punch cards; they toggle the programs in directly via front-panel switches (in octal).
- CoastalCoder 3y agoOh, we're talking about real programmers? Well, real programmers just tweak the bias voltages on the op-amps driving the transistor networks. And not using the potentiometers that today's "real programmers" use. No sir, when I was a lad...
- chungy 3y agoYou could always use free format COBOL. https://gnucobol.sourceforge.io/faq/index.html#do-you-have-a-reasonable-source-code-skeleton-for-gnucobol https://gnucobol.sourceforge.io/faq/index.html#do-you-have-a...