Re^2: On what column do you wrap your code?

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Re^3: On what column do you wrap your code? by krisahoch (Deacon) on Feb 14, 2006 at 18:55 UTC
Coding sheets! A luxury! In my day we had to lay out stones in a river bed. Made coding during the rainy season mighty interesting.	[reply]
Re^4: On what column do you wrap your code? by Nkuvu (Priest) on Feb 14, 2006 at 21:50 UTC
Quote from one of my college professors: Real Men Scrape The Hard Drive Platters With A Rusty Spoon	[reply]
Re^3: On what column do you wrap your code? by johngg (Canon) on Feb 23, 2006 at 14:58 UTC
How about Fortran IV on ICL 1900 under George III with 6-bit bytes so no lower case letters. Also, the editor was single pass so you planned your edits very carefully! I did have a teletype though linked to the mainframe with a 100 baud acoustic coupler. Anyone remember those?	[reply]
Re^4: On what column do you wrap your code? by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Feb 23, 2006 at 15:29 UTC
I did have a teletype though linked to the mainframe with a 100 baud acoustic coupler. Anyone remember those? Yes. My school got one to link to the polytechnics pdp10 and we students spent hours sitting around after school for our turn to enter our programs. Still, it was better than the twice weekly coding sheet collection service where poly students were paid some dismal rate to enter our programs from the coding sheets we sent in. It was so frustrating to wait 4 days for your program to come back only to discover that you had forgotten to clearly indicate a comma or fullstop somewhere, or find your sheet annotated with: "I waited 5 minutes and nothing happened so I aborted it", because you had omitted to indicate that they should hit the enter key somewhere. Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error. Lingua non convalesco, consenesco et abolesco. -- Rule 1 has a caveat! -- Who broke the cabal? "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority". In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.	[reply]