From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dave at horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall) Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2021 08:06:33 +1100 (EST) Subject: [COFF] Quote from Wilkes In-Reply-To: <60413632.9060500@gmail.com> References: <60413632.9060500@gmail.com> Message-ID: On Thu, 4 Mar 2021, Nemo Nusquam wrote: > I am currently reading "Memoirs of a Computer Pioneer" by Maurice > Wilkes, MIT press. The following text from p. 145 may amuse readers. [...] You were lucky! Back in my Uni days (punched cards on the 029) we only had the overnight batch run on the 360/50, so we quickly learned to code properly lest the output be returned with the dreaded "syntax error". -- Dave