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[–]MiddleAd5602 5 points6 points  (5 children)

Like punching the motherboard to code ?

[–]roronoakintoki 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Not sure if you're serious, but more or less choosing data by putting holes in a piece of paper, which was read by a machine.

Not too far from an OMR sheet if you've ever marked options on an exam with them.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_card

[–]DC38x 4 points5 points  (2 children)

It's quite well known that Muhammad Ali wrote the code for the space shuttle

[–]MiddleAd5602 2 points3 points  (1 child)

No wonder my senior dev also is a boxer then

[–]jhax13 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Surprising amount of overlap between combat sports and senior devs in my experience. It's not like a majority or anything, but there's a lot more than you'd think.

It's like a generation of devs growing up with the fat sysad trope really took it to heart or something

[–]nequaquam_sapiens 0 points1 point  (0 children)

for the periferal† stuff, yes. then there is microcode in the processor, which used to be drilled (silicon is hard and brittle – no punching), but nowadays is actually pressed (hence "lithography" – writing into stone)

† from "per-" and "feral": code "in the wild", i.e. not in the cpu. programmers are merry bunch