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From: Denc 🗡
The silk weavers “ programmed “ their looms using punched card rolls long before that, back in the 19th century. When I first wrote programs it was with a pen, which was punched into cards pretty much like the silk weavers by punch card machine operators.

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Brings back memories.....[more]	Free Thinking Doggie	15:39:33
>> Interesting that programming is an activity which has existed for maybe 75 years, ... [more]	Free Thinking Doggie	16:57:31
>> The silk weavers “ programmed “ their looms using punched card rolls long before ... [more]	Denc 🗡	17:31:54
>> But they weren't creating variables, and assigning values to them. I'd say ... [more]	Free Thinking Doggie	18:28:16
>> Well you might consider a column a variable and the pattern of punched holes ... [more]	Denc 🗡	23:02:48
>> Err Bletchley Park may disagree.	Hamsterwheel	18:31:59
>> Mechanical though.	Free Thinking Doggie	18:36:02
>> TRS 80 too of course.	Free Thinking Doggie	18:29:16
>> How many have programmed in assembler on a TRS 80 ?...[more]	Free Thinking Doggie	18:41:32
>> None. Programs are written in *assembly*. The assembler constructs the ... [more]	Opisthocomus	21:04:28
>> A typo, you boring, self - important t wat.	Free Thinking Doggie	10:32:55
>> "typo" - LOL.	Opisthocomus	11:56:14
>> Although my limited experience with Chat GPT shaws that more work is needed....[more]	Free Thinking Doggie	17:10:59

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