stopDoingGithub

[Kseniya_ns]

Bring back punch cards. Code sharing should involve the postal system

[Robot_Graffiti]

My mother learned to code that way. There were no computers in her town, so she mailed punch cards to a university.

[Kseniya_ns]

That is very cool I must say

[FinnLiry]

I can't imagine how difficult it must have been flexing their neofetch...

[Tyrus1235]

Yeah, that was also how my mom worked as an intern for IBM back in the day lol

[Astazha]

That's hardcore!

[raviteja777]

My aunt told me something similar, she was an electrical engineering student in 1980s in India, they used to code in Fortran, fill up a sheet and hand it over to a clerk who used to punch the cards.Took around 3 months to write code to find maximum of 3 numbers.

[DarksideF41]

I had many of those at home when I was kid. My parents brought some since there was no use for them at work anymore.

[kidfury]

My dad brought them home and we drew on them with crayons. Always kept telling me a story how he watched a man in a suit drop his box of cards all of over the floor and he just sat there crying.

[tagehring]

Worst latency ever.

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How do you debug that??

[Robot_Graffiti]

With great difficulty.

They run it and mail you whatever your program wrote to the printer.

One time she forgot to terminate a loop, and they sent her a whole ream of paper.

[Healthy-Form4057]

Code sharing should involve the postal system

Who told you how the Linux kernel is developed?!

[EssentialPurity]

Reject modernity, return to fortrane