Re:Ask HN: Anyone using proportional fonts for coding?
by wredue on Saturday July 29, 2023 @11:19PM
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Back in my day we had real man’s trees rather than the silly “programmer” soft lad trees. It took us a MONTH to chew our punch cards.
Re:Ask HN: Anyone using proportional fonts for coding?
by bratgpttamer on Sunday July 30, 2023 @11:07AM
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Real Programmers don't use punch cards; they toggle the programs in directly via front-panel switches (in octal).
Re:Ask HN: Anyone using proportional fonts for coding?
by CoastalCoder on Sunday July 30, 2023 @12:59PM
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Oh, we're talking about real programmers?
Well, real programmers just tweak the bias voltages on the op-amps driving the transistor networks.
And not using the potentiometers that today's "real programmers" use. No sir, when I was a lad...
Why, when I was a lad, we had to punch paper tape by hand! And it wasn't any of this buy-it-by-the-roll stuff either. My da' would send me to the woods, and I'd have to chew a branch for a week to make my own paper!