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by jonjacky 943 days ago
> I just had to skip over all the parts about entering your code into punch cards

A few years ago I worked with a scientist who used a huge Fortran program with a long history. He described the lines in a text file that configured the program: "On the first card you put ... on the next card you put ..." They still call them cards! He was born after actual punch cards went out of use.