Marty Landman wrote:
The subject is from a jobs posting I just saw. Am I the only one that doesn't get what a

Junior Perl/Mod_Perl/Java *Typist* is?
Because typing is such an esoteric skill, the programmers hand-write on legal pads, and a fast typist keys on to punch-tape so that the expensive compute time isn't taken waiting for keyboard input.

        -=- James Mastros,
            who has never seen a machine that actually took paper tape

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