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Re:US FAA says it will phase out floppy disks from air traff... by WalterBright on Friday November 06, 2026 @05:16PM (#50399228)
Typing in the code from a listing is one way I inadvertently learned to program.
Re:US FAA says it will phase out floppy disks from air traff... by MomsAVoxell on Saturday November 07, 2026 @01:28AM (#50402167)
Same. Over and over again. Every time, learning new things. And then trying to port things from one system to another is how I became a disciplined cross-platform systems software developer. And then, when C was kind of new, I bought a compiler instead of drugs and booze, like my peers at the time. Oh, what a world that has wrought!