When Compilers Stole My Punch Card Career

When Compilers Stole My Punch Card Career
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Back when dinosaurs roamed the earth (aka the 1960s), programmers had to manually punch holes in cards to represent binary code. One wrong punch and your entire program crashed spectacularly. Then compilers came along and suddenly you could write human-readable code instead of managing thousands of punch cards like some deranged librarian. The person in this image is dramatically lamenting the loss of their painstaking punch card skillsโ€”as if anyone would actually miss spending 8 hours debugging because they sneezed while punching card #4,721.

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