[AccessD] OT: Memory Lane. IBM Key Punch

>   http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/029.html
I did work with that device for several years when preparing my programs on
Assembler, PL/1, Cobol, Fortran to run on IBM 360 and 370 (Soviet clone)....

...IBM 360/370 Macro Assembler is the best programming language I have ever
seen! Real power nuke development tool for real programmers! :)

>   The Perils of JavaSchools
>   http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/ThePerilsofJavaSchools.html
I like most of Joel's writing but this last one is arguable - I can't agree
that understanding recursion and pointers is a heavy stuff - IMO modern real
life programming is a way more complicated than recursion and pointers.
Maybe I didn't get what Joel meant. Either I didn't like Java (not because
it doesn't have pointers) - C# rules! :) (C# is on second place after C++ of
course :))

Shamil

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gustav Brock" <Gustav at cactus.dk>
To: <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 11:06 PM
Subject: [AccessD] OT: Memory Lane. IBM Key Punch


> Hi all, not Friday yet, but ...
>
> Joel Spolsky is sometimes rambling a bit but his recent blurb is quite
entertaining:
>
>   The Perils of JavaSchools
>   http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/ThePerilsofJavaSchools.html
>
> He is not nice with the Java boys but what do we care.
>
> Note, however, the picture of the IBM 026 Key Punch.
> This is before my time but click on it and find a new link:
>
>   http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/029.html
>
> This is the 029 Key Punch which we used at the technical university here.
Oh boy, did we punch some cards! I can still remember the unique feeling of
the keys and the massive low-frequence sound for every punch. What a piece
of machinery!
>
> Also, note the link to the Blub Programmers and this quote:
>
>   Lisp is worth learning for the profound
>   enlightenment experience you will have
>   when you finally get it; that experience
>   will make you a better programmer for
>   the rest of your days, even if you never
>   actually use Lisp itself a lot.
>
> I have only "tasted" LISP. All I remember is a feeling of the wonderful
different syntax.
> Has anyone here learned and used it?
>
> /gustav
>
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