I would not have stayed sane. I can not level without debugger tools. Guess you would have to be confident in your code.
My father says back in the days of batch jobs it would take about a month to get a program to run, because the debug cycle was 1 day.
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before terminals it was coding sheets passed to typists for paper tape or punch card encoding. I cut teeth at the end of the card era
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His secretary became an expert at reassembling stacks of punched cards when he dropped them.
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which is why one wrote a word with a magic marker on the side of the deck
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Fewer did than now though. Standards were just lower about how long programs took to write.
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still today this is one of the most important metric. Time to fix/debug
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what kind of programs did your father made? I wonder what kind of complexity was feasible back then
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Physics simulations. I think nearly all the complexity was in the math.
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Yup. Critical programs were simulated - by hand and mind - to reduce debug time.
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This is fascinating. How many people worked in that industry back then?
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