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I'm dubious of this explanation because C itself largely postdates punched cards as a major medium of data storage, and some quick searches doesn't produce any
by jcranmer 1y ago
I'm dubious of this explanation because C itself largely postdates punched cards as a major medium of data storage, and some quick searches doesn't produce any evidence of people using punch cards with C or Unix.
- noosphr 1y agoEd was also line oriented. Using regex to edit lines instead of typing them out was a step up, but not much of one. Also my father definitely had C punch cards in the 80s.