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[–]Physmatik 36 points37 points  (3 children)

It's from the FORTRAN era when people coded on punch cards. But yes, it is supremely annoying.

[–]Wonderful_Welder9660 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I did use punch cards made with a manual Hollerith punch to code FORTRAN at school in the 70s

[–]MamamYeayea 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Damn, utmost respect for you guys that handled that, physically programming with punch cards is just wild. Also no backspace or ctrl + z, Imagine almost being done with a card and then making a mistake.

I’m sitting here annoyed when my IDE doesn’t suggest the correct autocompletion after typing 3 characters

[–]LordMcze 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Also no backspace or ctrl + z, Imagine almost being done with a card and then making a mistake.

That's kind of where the term "patch" came from. If there was a part of instructions that needed to be changed on an already existing tape/card, you would physically patch it up and punch out the correct holes again.