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   From: marion@facts.com   
      
   On 3 Mar 2025 19:08:42 GMT, G wrote :   
      
      
   > I wrote my first program on punch card... for a IBM (maybe a 340?) and the   
   lab   
   > had half the punchers(?) from honeywell, which, of course had different   
   > character set, Fun!.   
      
   Yeah. You reminded me of the computer rooms with the raised floors (for the   
   A/C) and the big magtapes (I still have one somewhere). When I wrote my   
   first program in school, it was in punched cards and Fortran 77 on an IBM,   
   oh, maybe an 1130?   
      
   I remember the punched tape machine sat there, unused, while we employed   
   the "more modern" boxes of punched cards. Do I remember correctly that a   
   box was about two thousand lines of Fortran code? Most of my code was about   
   a quarter to, at most, a half a box, so that's probably 500 to 1000 lines,   
   excluding the obligatory IBM JCL.   
      
   At some point (late seventies?) I was writing in PL/1 and about a decade   
   later in hex (when I wire wrapped my own Motorola 68701 microcontrollers).   
      
   At some point in time I swore off programming languages after concluding   
   that they all do teh same damn thing, only with different syntax. :)   
      
   I got sick of the syntax requirements the older I got. :)   
   Now the only thing I 'program' in is the Windows command line. :)   
      
   That's why when Lawrence mentioned Python, I shuddered. I still have   
   nightmares about having to look up "Error 52" or something like that in the   
   IBM 1130 documentation. Kids nowadays have no idea how that used to be! :)   
      
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