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Comment: Re:1983 was not the "punched card era" (Score 2) 230

by OffTheLip (#46881007) Attached to: One-a-Day-Compiles: Good Enough For Government Work In 1983
Depends on location and means. I took some programming classes at a NC public university in 1983 where we used punch cards for FORTRAN 77 programs which were batched and sent to the mainframe in Chapel Hiill for overnight processing. One job/run per day was normal. It paid to be a careful programmer.

Comment: Re:Does it make me a bad person... (Score 3, Insightful) 293

About the same time CNN decided the news "reader" was the story rather than what was being read. Just because some guy climbs under a table in his hotel room while continuing to speak in frightened, hushed tones does not a great newsman make. Now they are all personalities.

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Comment: Product of communite college reporting in (Score 3, Insightful) 246


Stellar rays prove fibbing never pays. Embezzlement is another matter.