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by mikestew 2884 days ago
so you spent a lot of time getting your programs right on paper before it was your turn to use the machine.

That was called "welcome to CompSci 101!" in the first CS course I took in the early 80s. Submit your card deck, wait your turn for the operator to load the deck, an hour later you get to find out that you made a typo and it didn't compile.