We can also predict that most of today's programmers won't enjoy changing the definition of their fundamental work—we know, because we didn't enjoy it. Hey, there was something really satisfying about carrying your program deck in both hands, securely fastened with two rubber bands; carefully removing those rubber bands; placing the deck in the card reader; pressing the start button; watching those cards stack up in the tray; pressing end-of-file to run out the last of them; removing them; riffling them to drop out any chad; squaring them up on the special platform; replacing the rubber bands;
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