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| Originally Posted by The Purist You were lucky! When I were a lad we had to get up at 3 o clock in the afternoon 6 hours before we went to bed, then spend 20 hours punching lines of COBOL into paper tape using only our teeth, then wait another 8 weeks for them to be fed into the teletype only to find it wouldn't compile cos we'd forgotten a comma....
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Oh great THANKS! You had to remind me of COBOL (I need a lie down now!). Started off simple, was as much use, in the long term, as programming in GROCKLE (a localised SW England language)