My first programming job was to write Fortran using a PC that fed into a VAX VMS. The stuff I wrote was sold to the USAF. It feels so long ago, there were no pa

My first programming job was to write Fortran using a PC that fed into a VAX VMS. The stuff I wrote was sold to the USAF. It feels so long ago, there were no packages to import. All I had was whatever Fortran 77 had and I was ever mindful of running out of memory. I remember writing my programs on loose leaf paper by hand and then laboriously keying it in. I don’t remember there was any compilation; it ran whenever the VMS decided it ran. I would read the log file I filled with stupid error messages to myself because I was bored. One error code would be DUCK. Another would be DUCKDUCK. The third would be GO. My boss would read and shake his head wryly.