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Re:My dad’s resume and skills from 1980 by seanmcdirmid on Saturday August 18, 2018 @10:50AM (#17788699)
This is like complaining about interactive terminals because programmers no longer have to think so hard about their code before writing it out to punch cards....
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Re:My dad’s resume and skills from 1980 by walshemj on Saturday August 18, 2018 @12:04PM (#17789101)
I think you mean writing it out on coding sheets before sending it to the "girls" to be punched onto card's
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Re:My dad’s resume and skills from 1980 by seanmcdirmid on Saturday August 18, 2018 @12:27PM (#17789207)
That was so early 1960s. In the mid 60s to the mid 70s, you had to mostly do it yourself unless you were really senior and still programming.
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Re:My dad’s resume and skills from 1980 by walshemj on Saturday August 18, 2018 @04:35PM (#17790506)
Well in the early 80's I entered fortran code that an Engineer had written onto coding sheets for our two phase flow simulator

And I suspect that this went on longer in traditional big iron shops.

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