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Article #620686Re: Nostalgia
From: Dan Espen
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 02:02
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 02:02
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Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> writes: > 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... We also frequently worked nights and weekends. -- Dan Espen
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