Distrowatch

Daniel Robitaille robitaille at gmail.com
Mon Apr 4 03:23:58 UTC 2005


> <cue: Monty_Python_4_Yorkshiremen>
> 
> Aye, well....
> 
> When *I* were lad, used to punch out Fortran IV, on mechanical punch
> keyboard.... carry deck 'o cards to front counter of Computer Centre,
> *queue* for privilege of using IBM mainframe, and come back *a day
> later* to find printout of bugs!
> 
> XP? OS/2? Win3.1 ? HA! *YOU* were *lucky* !!
> 
> </ Monty_Python>

and some people are still forced to code Fortran code all day
long...you know that top of the line brand new Fortran 77 :)

At least we don't have to deal with the punch cards nowadays




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