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- Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
- Date: Wednesday, 16 Dec 1992 16:27:48 PST
- From: <AMB@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>
- Message-ID: <92351.162748AMB@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
- Subject: Re: Real Programmers
- Distribution: world
- References: <DODD.92Dec12062844@mycenae.cchem.berkeley.edu>
- <1992Dec14.235245.2307@ultb.isc.rit.edu> <15DEC199219360045@utarlg.uta.edu>
- <1gmd4fINNkua@agate.berkeley.edu>
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- In article <1gmd4fINNkua@agate.berkeley.edu>, forags@smokey (Al Stangenberger)
- says:
- >
- >>> 4. Rigid field format goes hand-in-hand with model 29 keypunch program
- >drum.
- >>>
- >>REAL Real Programmers only use 026s. Those are the keypunches without the
- >>equals signs ( and a few other "useful" keys).
- >
- >I think real genuine programmers would not stoop to using even an 026.
- >Better to use an IBM 01 (they're hand-driven, and you have to know all the
- >multi-punch codes to punch ... )
- >
- ...But real programmers punch code on paper tape on a Flexowriter, and fix
- a bad punch by re-punching a whole new tape, error free, in only 3 hours.
-
- Fixing a bad punch, by locating its binary code on the tape,
- covering it with scotch tape and over-punching it
- correctly, is not up to aesthetical standards, and is
- never done by REAL programmers.
-
- Adam Boyarski, SLAC, Stanford University.
-