On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 06:57:06 +0000 Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Terry Hancock wrote: > [...] > > > > The ideal of "don't repeat yourself" seems to get > > nudged out by "repeat yourself exactly once" when it's > > really important to get it right. ;-) > > > I suppose most readers aren't old enough to remember the > punch card days, when you would hand your work in on > coding sheets to the punch room and it would be punched > onto cards using huge machines (anyone remember the 026 > and 029 punches?).
Punch cards were still in use for students at The University of Texas as late as 1986, so I'm old enough to remember. (Yes, the CS department had terminals and editors, but some classes still required cards -- I guess it was supposed to "build character" ;-)). However, I wasn't a CS student, so I never had to use one. ;-) We had VT-220 terminals in the Astronomy computer lab, which is where I first learned to use Unix, Fortran, and other fun things. :-) -- Terry Hancock ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Anansi Spaceworks http://www.AnansiSpaceworks.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
