[mcnamtm1]

I started coding in the late 70's (not 1908). I suppose I will take the "older folk" label as a compliment :-) I coded with Fortran and "wrote" software on punch cards that had to be compiled by a machine that read the cards and they had to be kept in order (line by line). The code went into a large mainframe computer and was scheduled with other jobs. Sometimes you would wait for hours to get large printed sheets of output. Then review it and start over again with fixes and patches.

Fortran was the 'scientific' language. People in the business schools learned Cobol.