On 12/19/2011 12:38 PM, dsimcha wrote:
Programming on punchcards is equivalent to typing: It is/was sometimes a necessary practical skill, but there's nothing conceptually deep about it that makes it worth learning even if it's not immediately practical.
The only worthwhile skill with punchcards is trying to delicately punch out every hole without breaking any of the bridges between holes.
Well, that and throwing handfulls of chad at other people. (Punchcard chad is particularly annoying because it has sharp corners and hooks onto everything, making it hard to clean up.)
I should have kept some of my old punchcard decks.
