The NPM drinking game
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OK - I'll have another St Clement's, please. :sigh:
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embiggen?? NO DRINK SHAME ON YOU
Unfortunately, I've just got back from the work's Christmas do, so I won't volunteer to take your place. :)
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A similar "game": Old PDP-11 guys can tell you about a classic ASCII editor (probably TECO - I never worked on PDP-11/TECO myself) where every letter you typed when in command mode activated some operation. Having a name which, when typed in as editor commands, lead to a meaningful sequence of operations put you in a very special gruop of people. To earn the gold medal, you should have a full first and last name, typed in sequence, giving a meaningful set of operations. First or last name alone was not quite as presitigous, but it would still earn you significant respect.
Member 7989122 wrote:
TECO
Yep, definitely TECO. I used it, a lot, on PDP-11's and VAXen(*). (*) Yes, Ravi, I know that VAXen had EDT. There were special circumstances.
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Member 7989122 wrote:
TECO
Yep, definitely TECO. I used it, a lot, on PDP-11's and VAXen(*). (*) Yes, Ravi, I know that VAXen had EDT. There were special circumstances.
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Hah! Real programmers used This[^] (Detail[^]) to code FORTRAN!
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Hah! Real programmers used This[^] (Detail[^]) to code FORTRAN!
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We only had six or eight of those for all four years of the CS course at my Uni so the queue was alwasy hours long - you could write your code on FORTRAN coding sheets[^] and submit them to the "typing girls" who would punch it for you, but they took days to get round to it, and weren't very accurate. So I learned to use a hand punch and read holes!
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640 Never throw anything away, Griff Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay... AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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We only had six or eight of those for all four years of the CS course at my Uni so the queue was alwasy hours long - you could write your code on FORTRAN coding sheets[^] and submit them to the "typing girls" who would punch it for you, but they took days to get round to it, and weren't very accurate. So I learned to use a hand punch and read holes!
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640 Never throw anything away, Griff Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay... AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
OriginalGriff wrote:
So I learned to use a hand punch and read holes!
We had a guy in my data structures class who was blind. He knew how to read punch cards by feel. He said it was a PITA compared to Braille because the holes were spread out so far and the holes didn't "register" as well. He would lay a card on a piece of cloth and run his finger over it, feeling the bit of cloth protruding up through each hole.
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[npm drink](https://npmdr.ink/) Just submit a noun, and if it's an NPM package take a drink. Warning, this is extremely hazardous to your liver and alcohol supply unless you're already imbibing by the tanker truck. :-\
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My biggest program at school was something around 2300 cards, which was a bitch to carry around. A standard box was only 2000.
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