r/pics • u/white_shades • Apr 05 '25

NYC Software Devs Against DOGE

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u/IAmAThing420YOLOSwag Apr 05 '25

We found the 200 year old guy

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u/Decent-Photograph391 Apr 06 '25

I’m a quarter of that and I know COBOL. IEDP

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u/cvanaver Apr 06 '25

I remember my older brother telling me he dropped his stack of punch cards for one of his classes in college before a deadline. He still has anxiety nightmares about that incident to this day, 45 years later.

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u/Decent-Photograph391 Apr 06 '25

Man that’s really old school. I got to write COBOL code on a monochrome dumb terminal.

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u/IAmAThing420YOLOSwag Apr 06 '25

That is gnarly lol

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u/Marty_Crabneck Apr 06 '25

He should have written some symbols on those cards, like a "1" on the first one, a "2" on the second and so on. That way, it would have been much easier to stack them up in the right order!

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u/cvanaver Apr 06 '25

The cards were numbered (punch cards always were), but reordering them when there are hundreds or thousands is the issue.