23 Nov 02 09:52, Peter Knapper wrote to Sarah Nunez:

 PK> I haven't heard mention of punched cars in a LONG time, and its been
 PK> even longer for Punched Paper Tape! Dare I say this may date the both
 PK> of us slightly.....;-)

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

I still remember making Christmas wreaths as a child from IBM cards my
father would bring home from work.  I thought everybody had wreaths like
those.  I also remember visiting my father at work after hours, when he'd
load a deck of IBM cards on the computer and let me play a (very crude)
game of baseball with the computer.

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

 SN>> I guess for starters, what's the difference between OOP
 SN>> and modular programming? (We can take this to OS2PROG
 SN>> if you'd rather. . .)

 PK> No, I think thats a great way to start with Davids "project", its
 PK> always easier to understand something new if it can be compared to the
 PK> currently understood methodologies.

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

Sarah
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