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Intellisense was off and developer learned you can't code in Canadian

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" Even more annoying, I'd written it correctly on the coding sheet but then punched my own cards instead of handing them in to be punched by the roomful of women (this was late 60s) dedicated to doing this."

In the 1960s the company were producing 3rd generation mainframes and the software to go with them. One day a programmer submitted a job to test error paths for common mistakes and typos. When she received the printout the next day no errors had been flagged.

The punch room operator had corrected them as she punched the cards.

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