[OT] Re: Real Men

[Dan Jenkins]

Bruce Dawson wrote:

>  Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote:
> >>> No, No, No....I much prefer arguing issues around arcane
> >>> languages.
> >>>
> >>> What about using SNOBOL? :-)
> >>
> >> Ha! Real men write right down on the metal in Assembler...
> >
> > You use an assembler??
> >
> > Real men program directly in '1's and '0's, and the ones that have
> > been doing it a long time only use write-once ROMs.....
>
>  And I bet they use switches! Now, wire-wrap and diodes...

Wirewrap? Paugh, just solder directly to the tubes... (Not the Internet 
tubes, the vacuum ones. :-D )
Or cut the teeth in those gears and cams for Mr. Babbage's engine.
Unless we go back to the Antikythera Mechanism, I think that's as low as 
we can go.
(Please correct me if I'm wrong, as I know y'all will.) :-)
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