this post was submitted on 28 Nov 2023
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[–] [email protected] 34 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I don't know about you people, but personally, I always write programs at work by removing boards from my computer and plugging them in a different order.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago

That's why they are so fit and resourceful. Imagine carrying every IF statement by hand.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That not too far off how they used to program computers with punch cards

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Well, it really wasn't. You'd program by punching the cards, and then insert them into the computer. If they brought the boards from a terminal (or replicator), and switched the old ones to the new ones, the entire thing would make sense.

It's a bit similar to how people programed analogical computers at the 50s. But it's actually a lot like programing old sewing machines. The thing those have in common is that their programs were always an order of magnitude smaller than this comment.