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- From: b259phl@utarlg.uta.edu (PHILIP LIPPEL)
- Subject: Re: Real Programmers
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- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 01:36:00 GMT
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- > 5. Best language to use on an IBM-1620 CADET (Can't add, doesn't even try).
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- > 4. Rigid field format goes hand-in-hand with model 29 keypunch program drum.
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- REAL Real Programmers only use 026s. Those are the keypunches without the
- equals signs ( and a few other "useful" keys). A compiler switch enables the
- appropriate translation-- I think it was & for = on the machine upon which I
- first learned FORTRAN. The advantages should be obvious.
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