[Tfug] Punched cards and paper tape.

[Mike Martinet]

>Message: 1
>Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 21:23:55 -0700
>From: "Ed Wilson" <debed at debed.com>
>
>WOW, 5,000 cards! That is a lot, and you took a single fortran class? I am
>impressed.
>


Okay all you card-punchers and paper-tapers (for the record, my first encounter with a computer was in 1977 on a training device with wire-core memory, but sadly, no Big Iron experience), how long until programmers are rendered obsolete?

I'm thinking here of the success of Watson on "Jeopardy"

Ten years?  Five years?  Twenty until computers are programming themselves?

MjM