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In 1st professional job, in the late 80s, my first boss/lead did not know how to use a text editor. Punched cards is all he knew and the main system did not eve
by pauljonas 12y ago
In 1st professional job, in the late 80s, my first boss/lead did not know how to use a text editor. Punched cards is all he knew and the main system did not even feature a text editor (we actually compiled programs on one machine, then the compiled output was migrated over). Though there was a utility that emulated punched card input (and this was on Burroughs hardware). But he could perform a randomizing routine in his head.
Most all of the old-timers used pencil on coding sheets like displayed in this article and were aghast at us young whipper-snappers that entered code directly into the terminal.
- joshlegs 12y agoI wonder what the next stage of this will be. Will programmeers of the future marvel that we even had to use keyboards at some point?