Wow, PL-I, I'm learning about that in my language design class. While it brought a bunch of new items to the computing field, can't say I'm upset I didn't code in it :).<br><br>Sorry guys, I came into existence just about the time the internet was opened up from just NSF to commercial interest, so punch cards are a little out of my league. I must say though, this certainly beats the heck out of a history of computing languages class any day!<br><br>Ellis<br><br><b><i>Gerry Creager <gerry.creager@tamu.edu></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> Didn't you have a tic-tac-toe game on punch cards written in PL-1?<br><br>John Leidel wrote:<br>> Friends don't let friends play tic-tac-toe using punchcards :-)<br>> <br>> On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 11:20 -0700, David Mathog wrote:<br>>> Jim Lux <James.P.Lux@jpl.nasa.gov> wrote<br>>><br>>>> and, as we
all know, real developers <br>>>> use paper: tape, tab cards, or, if they must, teletype rolls.<br>>> You forgot paper tape. (Most people who used it probably wish they<br>>> could forget it too!)<br>>><br>>> Anyway, all of the tools you mentioned are for wimps - real<br>>> programmers load code directly into memory using the toggle<br>>> switches on the front of the computer. <br>>><br>>> Regards,<br>>><br>>> David Mathog<br>>> mathog@caltech.edu<br>>> Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech<br>>> _______________________________________________<br>>> Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org<br>>> To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf<br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org<br>> To change your
subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf<br><br>-- <br>Gerry Creager -- gerry.creager@tamu.edu<br>Texas Mesonet -- AATLT, Texas A&M University<br>Cell: 979.229.5301 Office: 979.862.3982 FAX: 979.862.3983<br>Office: 1700 Research Parkway Ste 160, TAMU, College Station, TX 77843<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org<br>To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf<br></James.P.Lux@jpl.nasa.gov></blockquote><br><p>
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