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Subject: Real programmers
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Date: Fri, 1-Jul-83 04:58:00 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul  1 04:58:00 1983
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Most of you people making cracks about people patching machine language and
all that probably thought it was a joke, but when I worked for the Air
Force, they did that so often they had a special coding form for it. (They
had a whole room full of forms -- about half of them seemed to be coding
forms of one kind or another.)  They also not only still used plugboard-
programmable machines (would you call that "firmware"?), they still taught
people to program them.  There was one old-timer there whose most recent
experience consisted of machine language programming (no assemblers then)
on a Univac I.  He claimed his job was keeping up with advances in computers.

By the way, this was in the 1970s, not the 1950s.