There's a part of the 3h Dave Cutler interview where he talks about programming with punch cards: he became so frustrated at the jobs being rejected due to synt

There's a part of the 3h Dave Cutler interview where he talks about programming with punch cards: he became so frustrated at the jobs being rejected due to syntax errors that he wrote a program (run on a departmental computer with interactive access) to pre-check his card deck, allowing him to submit it clean to the mainframe. This was one of the first programs he wrote.