Re: Hashtable ordering
Roedy Green wrote:
Hollerith
used it
punch card
used it
paper tape
used it - always wanted to put a program on a M??bius strip
mag tape
used it - used to have to mount'em myself.
core
tube
used 'em
CRT
Can't even get my employer to stop using 'em
TTY
used it
Univac
learned assembler on it
Xerox (as a mainframe company)
It's the same company.
Any programmer who doesn't know about Xerox PARC needs to turn in their GUI
and their mouse.
Control Data
used it
Ahmdahl
Use his law.
data cell
can you say "spreadsheet"?
This one actually causes me doubt.
merge
Maryland drivers don't know how to do that.
Oh! You mean as in merge-sort. Any programmer who hasn't plowed through
Knuth at least once should go out and do so.
collator
still lives as a term in "collation sequence"
control break
used it
RPG
avoided it
engine
still a current term
COBOL
avoided it
FORTRAN
used it a lot
Algol
learned it in college
Basic
used it
TSO
used it
time sharing
used it
IBM 360/370
used it
IBM OS 370/MVS
used it
MTS
OK, you got me.
pen plotter
used it
line printer
Not only did I use them, I got stuck in a room full of them for my office on
one contract.
dropping a card tray
Done it more than once
Oak
Every Java programmer should know that one
JavaOS
haven't used it
PicoJava
haven't used it
GPSS
Don't know that one
Great collection of terms, Roedy. Well done.
--
Lew