Hi Sarah,

 PK> Dare I say this may date the both of us slightly.....;-)

 SN> Well, maybe a little.

Ok youngster...;-)

 SN> I was still in school when I was 
 SN> doing the cardpunch thing, and we did it only because 
 SN> the 360/370 Assembler emulator wasn't working on the 
 SN> regular computers (Burroughs something-or-other 
 SN> machine).  We had to resort to an ancient Sperry 90 in 
 SN> the basement that took only IBM cards.

Careful, talking about Sperry like like may turn the clock back before me!
Straight from school into the Computer room.

 SN> I also 
 SN> remember visiting my father at work after hours, when 
 SN> he'd load a deck of IBM cards on the computer and let 
 SN> me play a (very crude) game of baseball with the 
 SN> computer.

Our machine ran DOS (IBM Mainframe DOS, not PC DOS), however we also had
TOS (Tape Operating System) and a card based system for REAL emergencies.
Never used either in 4 years though...

 SN> Paper tape was before any time I remember, though.  I 
 SN> can't help it that I'm young--I was born that way.  ;-)

PPT (Punched Paper Tape) as the data entry format used by old Burroughs 60W
machines, this was numeric data for banking applications. After about 18
months they were replaced by a Tape based mini that proved much more
reliable. 


 SN> I guess I don't mind as long as the moderator doesn't 
 SN> mind.  I just figured this thread would rapidly stray 
 SN> from REXX into general programming topics, which would 
 SN> probably be more appropriate in OS2PROG.

Well yes, OOP can be applied to a number of environments, however I think
Dave is pretty focused on Rexx in this Echo. I have played a bit with
Object Rexx, in fact I use it as my defaujt Rexx processor because of its
superior error finding capabilities, but 95% of my code is Classic Rexx
stuff. I tend to write very linear code, something that's quite logical to
read. OOP tends to try and make me think different, which I do tend to
fight quite a bit....;-)

Cheers............pk.


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