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Article #620685Re: Nostalgia
From: Charlie Gibbs
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 18:27
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 18:27
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On 2018-02-27, Peter Flass <peter...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Jorgen Grahn <grahn...@snipabacken.se> wrote: > >> I know this is afc, but surely we were discussing programming style >> choices now, rather than 40 years ago? >> >> (Not that I would mind such a discussion. I'd like to know e.g. how >> programming was affected by sitting at a slow serial terminal in the >> 1980s.) > > Or a card reader in the '60s. When machine time was limited, programmers were the last ones in line to get any. You did a lot more desk checking... -- /~\ cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid (Charlie Gibbs) \ / I'm really at ac.dekanfrus if you read it the right way. X Top-posted messages will probably be ignored. See RFC1855. / \ HTML will DEFINITELY be ignored. Join the ASCII ribbon campaign!
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