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Re:Nevertheless, She Coded by prepend on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @06:49PM (#13825150)
No, it's because back then programming was largely secretarial and clerical and involved many manual tasks repeated over and over to set up the programs. It was very different from what is done today.
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Re:Nevertheless, She Coded by bbcbasic on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @10:53PM (#13826818)
> many manual tasks repeated over and over to set up the programs

In some ways, not much different to today

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