How Can We Achieve Age Diversity in Silicon Valley?

Re:How Can We Achieve Age Diversity in Silicon Valley? by rnovak on Monday October 19, 2015 @02:55PM (#10414818)

can you watch out with the sweeping generalizations?

When I studied, we had a class where we literally wrote our programs in FORTRAN/C, on punch-cards, and submitted them to one of several mainframes that my university maintained. (this was 2-3 years ago).

I get that there's discrimination, but it seems like it goes both ways.

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Re:How Can We Achieve Age Diversity in Silicon Valley? by kazinator on Monday October 19, 2015 @03:16PM (#10414982)

> We had a class where we literally wrote our programs in FORTRAN/C, on punch-cards

C on punched cards going into a mainframe? That class was clearly messing with your heads, I'm afraid.

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Re:How Can We Achieve Age Diversity in Silicon Valley? by rnovak on Monday October 19, 2015 @03:22PM (#10415033)

C was offered as an alternate to people who hadn't learned FORTRAN. Say what you will, I've worked with several people who told me that was a fairly accurate depiction of the way things worked.

But it's certainly not the same as "OOP was invented in the 90's".

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