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My parents learned to program on punch cards. They told me it was a day of preparing the program, an hour of running it, just to get a syntax error.
by IgorPartola 8d ago
My parents learned to program on punch cards. They told me it was a day of preparing the program, an hour of running it, just to get a syntax error.
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- bluedino 8d agoWrite the program, punch the cards, send the cards to another building to be loaded, program runs, printout comes out in another building, somehow this takes 2-3 days
- lurker919 8d agoCoding is the new punch card slots now. My children will listen in awe about how typing and testing used to take hours or even (gasp!) days.