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Re:You did this with an AI and you do not understand what yo... by jcranmer on Monday September 22, 2025 @12:43PM (#45335996)
I'm dubious of this explanation because C itself largely postdates punched cards as a major medium of data storage, and some quick searches doesn't produce any evidence of people using punch cards with C or Unix.
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Re:You did this with an AI and you do not understand what yo... by noosphr on Monday September 22, 2025 @06:24PM (#45340366)
Ed was also line oriented.

Using regex to edit lines instead of typing them out was a step up, but not much of one.

Also my father definitely had C punch cards in the 80s.

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