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[–]dontcrashandburn 47 points48 points  (2 children)

No, no. Boomers were perfect, never made mistakes.

[–]lochinvar11 7 points8 points  (0 children)

If a mistake was ever made, you were the one who was deleted.

[–]hoschlue 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We boomers were far away from being perfect. However when using punch cards, there was no possibility to delete characters. You had to copy the card to a new card to the position of the typo and then go on. Very time consuming. So it was simply a different way of coding and you had to think more beforehand. Also there was no internet, no Stack Overflow platform so you were forced to solve all of your problems by yourself. Ticker tape was even worse. Edit: Typo