• justastranger
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    1 year ago

    Back when they didn’t have virtual machines so they had to hand-transpile it into Fortran and encode that onto punch slabs to put in their stone computers

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      1 year ago

      Two guys argue about whether a blank slab is full of tabs or spaces, and the snake inside the computer sighs to-camera, “It’s a living.”