[Discussion] Old Programmers

[Bob Wonderly]

Esther

Read your article mentioned by Dave Yeo. Very good. The only thing is 
you are not an old programmer ... there's some of us on the POSSI list 
who were programming in the mid 50's long before you were in the mid 
70's <smile>.

I learned to program on the bare metal in binary/octal. Talk about hard 
coding -- pun intended. The machine instruction codes and addresses were 
  hard coded. No symbolic names. I still remember some of the octal 
instruction codes.

Bob Wonderly

Dave Yeo wrote:

> 
> Speaking of Esther, perhaps this article is more on topic?
> http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&
> articleId=9132061
> Dave