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My grandmother programmed with punch cards, have no idea on what hardware and it's too late to ask. My father did a bunch of fortran and Cobol on USSR mainframe

My grandmother programmed with punch cards, have no idea on what hardware and it's too late to ask. My father did a bunch of fortran and Cobol on USSR mainframes and then did a bunch of y2k here in USA. One of the neatest things I have from this is a printout from one of his fortran programs from I think Minsk-32 mainframe which he ripped into 3 pieces to wrap a developed large format 64mm film of some mountains that he shot a long time ago. The program seems to be called MATR1 and is doing matrix manipulations and referring to topography of the land in comments. I have it framed on my wall near my workstation. I coded in variety of languages most of my life And now my teenager looks to be interested in coding and is doing Java and Python in high school. Here is to 4th generation programmer!

999900000999 3y ago
Sounds like a neat movie idea. The same code base passed down though generations. Legacy code.
- jacobyoder 3y ago
  The code will only run on some specific soviet-era hardware, and the last hardware was destroyed 20 years ago. There's some new regime that is rumored to have rebuilt the original hardware, and is now on the hunt for the missing source code that is framed above the great grandchild of the original developer, who was executed for treason. The new bad guys are gunning for the source code, and it has to be protected at all costs, to prevent a takeover of the world. I'm already seeing the inheritance jokes write themselves. Someone have chatgpt write the screenplay now.
  - micah94 3y ago
    I think you just wrote the prompt right there. Step 2. ???? Step 3. PROFIT!
  - ikesau 3y ago
    Class Warfare, out 1717243201.
  - Stratoscope 3y ago
    Done! CODE REDUX: Legacy Preserved "In a world where the past and present collide, a family's legacy becomes the key to saving the future." https://chat.openai.com/share/2f0c9eec-c3b8-4145-86d7-2c617aa101ea https://chat.openai.com/share/2f0c9eec-c3b8-4145-86d7-2c617a...
    - testplzignore 3y ago
      They have the code, then need to steal the code, then need to upload the code???
      - elzbardico 3y ago
        Now think about the fact that there are startups right now promising to use LLMs to filter job applicants.
- TMWNN 3y ago
  >The same code base passed down though generations. >Legacy code. Vernor Vinge's A Deepness in the Sky depicts a human society thousands of years in the future, in which pretty much all software has already been written; it's just a matter of finding it. So programmer-archaeologists search archives and run code on emulators in emulators in emulators as far back as needed. <https://garethrees.org/2013/06/12/archaeology/ https://garethrees.org/2013/06/12/archaeology/> (Heck, recently I migrated a VM to its third hypervisor. It has been a VM for 15 years, and began as a physical machine more than two decades ago.)

999900000999 3y ago

Sounds like a neat movie idea. The same code base passed down though generations. Legacy code.

jacobyoder 3y ago
The code will only run on some specific soviet-era hardware, and the last hardware was destroyed 20 years ago. There's some new regime that is rumored to have rebuilt the original hardware, and is now on the hunt for the missing source code that is framed above the great grandchild of the original developer, who was executed for treason. The new bad guys are gunning for the source code, and it has to be protected at all costs, to prevent a takeover of the world. I'm already seeing the inheritance jokes write themselves. Someone have chatgpt write the screenplay now.
- micah94 3y ago
  I think you just wrote the prompt right there. Step 2. ???? Step 3. PROFIT!
- ikesau 3y ago
  Class Warfare, out 1717243201.
- Stratoscope 3y ago
  Done! CODE REDUX: Legacy Preserved "In a world where the past and present collide, a family's legacy becomes the key to saving the future." https://chat.openai.com/share/2f0c9eec-c3b8-4145-86d7-2c617aa101ea https://chat.openai.com/share/2f0c9eec-c3b8-4145-86d7-2c617a...
  - testplzignore 3y ago
    They have the code, then need to steal the code, then need to upload the code???
    - elzbardico 3y ago
      Now think about the fact that there are startups right now promising to use LLMs to filter job applicants.
TMWNN 3y ago
>The same code base passed down though generations. >Legacy code. Vernor Vinge's A Deepness in the Sky depicts a human society thousands of years in the future, in which pretty much all software has already been written; it's just a matter of finding it. So programmer-archaeologists search archives and run code on emulators in emulators in emulators as far back as needed. <https://garethrees.org/2013/06/12/archaeology/ https://garethrees.org/2013/06/12/archaeology/> (Heck, recently I migrated a VM to its third hypervisor. It has been a VM for 15 years, and began as a physical machine more than two decades ago.)