And have to walk up hill too and from work with the disks on their back? Yea those were the daysSure there is, the really helluva tough guys can program with a magnetic pin on a 5 1/4-inch floppydisk while wearing a blindfold.

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Hell yeah!Moriarty wrote:And have to walk up hill too and from work with the disks on their back? Yea those were the daysSure there is, the really helluva tough guys can program with a magnetic pin on a 5 1/4-inch floppydisk while wearing a blindfold.
Do you mean for the punch-cards or for the mainframe that would be required?guiguibaah wrote:I wonder what the shipping charges would be like...
You don't need a mainframe yourself. You just send each turn's orders by mail and get your results back a week later.Yoghurt wrote:Do you mean for the punch-cards or for the mainframe that would be required?guiguibaah wrote:I wonder what the shipping charges would be like...
I'm sorry but that would just suck from a UI front.You don't need a mainframe yourself. You just send each turn's orders by mail and get your results back a week later.
On a more serious note, I think a few nice little easter eggs like this might be interesting. They add character to the game.Do we have a technology "Punch cards" in FO's tech tree? If not, we should include it immediately. (Technologies like that could be available on April 1st, only)
By that time computers will program themselves......to kill usZanzibar wrote:I wonder what will be the name of the default programming language (like assembly or binary is for current processors) once we switch over to quantum computers and qubits?
Some people would suggest a version of lisp, such as scheme, or a varient thereof. Greenspun's Tenth Rule: "Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp."Yoghurt wrote:I'd think something along the lines of HaskellZanzibar wrote:I wonder what will be the name of the default programming language (like assembly or binary is for current processors) once we switch over to quantum computers and qubits?