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Originally Posted by biker1
No, they don't. If you actually knew anything at all about computer science you would never state such a thing. There is a big difference between playing around with Windows and doing real, mission critical work on real computers. And I am pretty sure you have never used a real computer.
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I was programming on a dummy terminal connected to a teletype machine with tickertape, and three huge "refrigerator-case" computers in another room that had reel-to-reel tapes for memory. That was in 1978, in high school. I was disqualified from taking algebra II because I got a D in algebra I. My choices for senior math class were re-taking algebra I and then summer school for algebra II, or computer programming. My options were BASIC, COBOL, FORTRAN, or PASCAL. I took BASIC.
There was no Windows, no DOS, no PCs. Just clickety-click with black screen, amber text, we mapped out our programs on paper with plastic templates before entering them into the computer, the insane but always entertaining divide by zero error, and the equally entertaining "goto" function.