Comment by raghavtoshniwal
7 days ago
I feel a certain way when I hear about older programmers who used to program using punch cards, I guess everyone in the future will think about us in the same way?
7 days ago
I feel a certain way when I hear about older programmers who used to program using punch cards, I guess everyone in the future will think about us in the same way?
I feel a certain way when I work with older programmers who used to program using punch cards, and debug actual core dumps, i.e. the main memory of the computer printed out in hex. They have incredible attention to detail, and can reason about why their programs didn't do what they expected.
In some ways slower feedback loops might be useful. Having to think and reason if your code is correct and actually works because you only get output next day...
Instead of just vibing something out, pushing it to prod and seeing the problems. Or not even checking...
You don't "program" with punch cards any more than you "program" with text files. They were just the mechanism to get your code into the computer before hard drives and compilers existed.
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Haha - cool that you made a throwaway insult account just for this. I meant punch cards as a placeholder for programming in a bygone era, about how it feels so different, distant and detached, and that I don't relate to it.
I can see a plausible future where if we go down this route, what I call coding right now will feel the same.