Comment by skeledrew
6 days ago
Yeah there are still people out there hand-crafting Assembly. Not so sure about punch carding though; maybe some extreme retro getup.
6 days ago
Yeah there are still people out there hand-crafting Assembly. Not so sure about punch carding though; maybe some extreme retro getup.
If we don't count player pianos, punch cards originated in textile industry and jacquard looms[1] - and many jacquard loom users rely on punch cards even today.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_card#/media/File:Indus...
OK, but the context here is computer programming. Unless you're arguing that a jacquard loom is a computer.
To me the context is new technology that replaces the old, but the old is still more practical in some applications.