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From: Terje Mathisen <terje.mathisen@tmsw.no>
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Subject: Re: ALTER, ASSIGN and labels-as-values
Date: Thu, 30 May 2024 10:15:54 +0200
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Stephen Fuld wrote:
> Thomas Koenig wrote:
> 
> See what problems you get when you use that newfangled technology!
> :-)
> 
> *Real* programmers used actual punched cards!  :-)

BTDT, never want to go back.

This was using hand-punched cards, writing FORTRAN 2 code with the 
Hollerith text constants so you had to count very carefully:

    FORMAT 27HTHIS IS A VERY LONG TEXT STRING...

Good riddance!

Terje

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- <Terje.Mathisen at tmsw.no>
"almost all programming can be viewed as an exercise in caching"