Somewhere, right now, a developer is sorting 400 COBOL cards off a computer room floor after a late night of keying. Nobody wants to look at it. Nobody cares.

But we do.

Announcing code review for Punch Cards, powered by Review Board.

https://reviewboard.org/punch-cards/

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"The idea of a computer library dates back to the first computers created by Charles Babbage.

An 1888 paper on his Analytical Engine suggested that computer operations could be punched on separate cards from numerical input. If these operation punch cards were saved for reuse then "by degrees the engine would have a library of its own.""

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_(computing)

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"NEC2 was based on punch cards and an antenna model was described as a series of Cards. These are well documented. Nec2++ replaces these cards with function calls each function call the equivalent of an nec2 card."

Yes, the simulation model is so old and was so successful, modern replacements are modeling their API parameters like the old punch card formats. Is this a form of #retrocomputing?

(Picture CC BY-SA 3.0 by Harke)

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Do you consider the Jacquard loom being part of computing history due to its use of punch cards?

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