“”How about the screams of the programmer who just dropped his 500-card stack of IBM punchcards that used to be his FORTRAN program? :=)””
Assembler on punched cards was even worse than Fortran!
I learned most of the dinosaur languages, including COBOL, Fortran and Assembler on punched cards.... They sucked!
That happened to me once and thereafter I put sequence numbers in columns 73-80 (IIRC). We had a card sorter machine that I learned to use. That thing was noisy as hell but the next time I had a card shuffling accident it sure saved my bacon. Then they replaced card punches with key tape. That was the berries.