age of Python programmers

[Paul McGuire]

"Scott David Daniels" <Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org> wrote in message
news:4124d4a4$1 at nntp0.pdx.net...
> Mike Brenner wrote:
>
> > I was born about 10,000 years ago and I used to
> > program computers made of human beings who
> > were aligned in tiers. The bottom tier counted
> > the grains in the baskets. The next tier
> > counted the baskets in the barn, then the
> > number of brans in each country.
> >
> Don't laugh.  I met a woman roughly my age (53 now)
> whose mother was a programmer at los Alamos (or was
> it Trinity?) -- she programmed rooms of people
> running mechanical calculators (calculate this, if
> a > b, pass your results right, otherwise, ...)
>
> Scott David Daniels
> Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org

This technique is also described in Neal Stephenson's book "Cryptonomicon".

-- Paul