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You had awk? Ha! Luxuries! Why when I was a young programmer we had to write the code in the snow with our pee, and a compiler was just a word for the pilot o
by tripzilch 14y ago
You had awk? Ha! Luxuries! Why when I was a young programmer we had to write the code in the
snow with our pee, and a compiler was just a word for the pilot of the
hovering dirigible that read the instructions and passed them to the
ALU, which was another fellow with an abacus. They would wrap the re-
sults around a rock, and drop it on my house when the program would
exit. We had to walk uphill...
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