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Re: MartinLiss
Probably not for the first time in your life.....
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
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In celebration of my birthday and to prove to myself I'm still alive I run the San Francisco Bay to Breakers 12K race. This year was my 24th year in a row. The race is run every year on the 3rd Sunday in May and that works out to actually be my birthday every seven years (this year it was the 15th while my birthday is the 16th). Each year my wife and I drive into San Francisco, usually with a friend or two, and stay in a hotel for the weekend. They watch the race while I run. We also do some sightseeing and have a couple of nice meals.
Let's take a moment and reflect on all the changes Martin has seen in his years with programming. Look at all the complex instructions, and complicated languages that are around now. We have RISC, we have CISC, etc. Back in Marty's day, there was a REAL Reduced Instruction Set! Those abacuses (abaci?) only had ADD, INC, DEC, and SUB, though it was all very object oriented.
Then came the slide rule, and everything changed (actually, I remember using one of those myself).
Happy birthday. By the time you have worn your feet off, there will probably be some pretty good virtual road races you can run in.
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Re: MartinLiss
Or any program where he made pure black transparent.
Quotes:
"I am getting better then you guys.." NoteMe, on his leet english skills.
"And I am going to meat her again later on tonight." NoteMe "I think you should change your name to QuoteMe" Shaggy Hiker, regarding NoteMe
"my sweet lord jesus. I've decided never to have breast implants" Tom Gibbons
Let's take a moment and reflect on all the changes Martin has seen in his years with programming. Look at all the complex instructions, and complicated languages that are around now. We have RISC, we have CISC, etc. Back in Marty's day, there was a REAL Reduced Instruction Set! Those abacuses (abaci?) only had ADD, INC, DEC, and SUB, though it was all very object oriented.
Then came the slide rule, and everything changed (actually, I remember using one of those myself).
Happy birthday. By the time you have worn your feet off, there will probably be some pretty good virtual road races you can run in.
When I started out programming consisted of
Going to the punch room
Typing the code line by line on Hollerith's cards
Carefully placing them on their edges in a long, shallow, box
Drawing a black line on them from the top left corner to the bottom right (in case you dropped them)
Adding Job Control Language cards
Taking the box to the computer room where another person fed the cards into the card reader
Returning the next day to find out what your first error was
Carefully placing them on their edges in a long, shallow, box
Drawing a black line on them from the top left corner to the bottom right (in case you dropped them)
Adding Job Control Language cards
Taking the box to the computer room where another person fed the cards into the card reader
Returning the next day to find out what your first error was
Make corrections
Submit again
Find error
Etc., etc., adnauseum.
I have only heard rumors of that. Death by a thousand paper cuts! I don't think my father even had to suffer through that (though he's older than you, I think he was doing circuit board testing back then). I do remember the first calculator he got. It weighed several pounds, and had an LED display up to 10 digits. It was a thing of wonder, but I thought the slide rule was even more fascinating.
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