Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!greep@su-dsn From: greep%su-dsn@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Real programmers Message-ID: <2708@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Jul-83 04:58:00 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.2708 Posted: Fri Jul 1 04:58:00 1983 Date-Received: Thu, 7-Jul-83 11:19:42 EDT Lines: 11 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.