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To: Seadog Bytes

Before my time. But I remember watching a sibling building a FORTRAN program on cards for a college assignment. The notion of subroutines arose from the punch card days -- the pros would have a rubber-banded deck of cards for square root, pi, whatever, and use 'em over and over.


11 posted on 03/23/2007 9:49:29 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (I last updated my profile on Sunday, March 11, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SunkenCiv

Yes. ...and...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1804912/posts?page=9#9
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1804912/posts?page=10#10


12 posted on 03/23/2007 1:40:20 PM PDT by Seadog Bytes (OPM - The Liberal 'solution' to every societal problem. (Other People's Money))
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