Re: integers and arrays inJava - how?


"IchBin" <weconsul@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Oliver Wong wrote:

"Rhino" <no.offline.contact.please@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Can this be done, and eXactly how?

If this is a homework assignment, I'm reasonably sure that it _can_ be
done; most instructors would not waste your time and theirs asking you
to do something that can't be done.

I've had one professor who asked us to do something impossible for
homework. The next day, he told us it was impossible. The point of it was
for us to discover for ourselves that it was impossible and thus learn
something.

- Oliver

Wow, I remember those days. I use to get calices on my fingers from coding
programs on code paper so the keypunch people could build your program
card deck. For me, IBM mainframe 360/370. I think 390 and Z90 may still
have 2540 card reader and Punch around somewhere. But once IBM pushed
VM/CMS system things seem to become cardless at the shops I worked. I
remember converting a shop from a card to cardless shop. Those where the
days.

Sorry, I have not read this thread just Olivers last message which flooded
me with old images.

You must be thinking back to the IBM 360 days; I started working full time
in IT in 1982 and we were in a 370 shop; all our programs were entered via
TSO and the last card reader and card deck had a departed a few years
earlier. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, I worked in a service bureau in
Toronto and they had card punch for a few customers that still ran very old
systems. I remember them announcing that they'd finally weaned the last of
those customers over to TSO (or maybe Wylbur) around 1990 and ditched the
card reader. I think they said it was the last working card reader in the
country. But aside from a few rare cases like the service bureau, card
readers haven't seen significant use since the late 1970s.

Now, maybe in the third world things are somewhat different; for all I know
they still use antiquated systems there and you may find a card reader or
two if you walk into an insurance company in Cairo or Calcutta or Shanghai.
But I expect you're going to have to look very hard to find a card reader in
any IT shop in North America or Europe.

--
Rhino



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