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johnny53169 | 4 years ago

It's very interesting, did you and your mom ever talk about your respective programming career? How was it like when she was a programmer?

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drewg123|4 years ago

Sadly, she was a heavy smoker, and passed away from lung cancer when I was still very early in my career.

The one time we "worked together" was when I got a summer internship at another defense contractor, programming in FORTRAN 77 on VAX/VMS. Coming from C & UNIX at the university, VMS and FORTRAN was quite different. She taught me the basics of the language over a weekend. I never really adjusted to the column layout stuff.

I recall we would use used punch cards for scrap paper when I was a kid. Pretty much every note or list she wrote was on a used punch card.