I know it's wrong, but I've used pliers on bicycle wheel nuts. They were at hand and the Park wrench wasn't. But what the hell, the tire was flat and it was a long walk home.I am a kludgaholic. And not seeing it as a problem.
The author was using Fortran on punch cards and considered himself lucky [Enter: three more Yorkshiremen ...]
I started on Punch cards... Back in '86 we had a Bulgarian over at Bristol and he told us that in Bulgaria you only got one compile so if you wanted to change your programme you had to edit the object deck (ie assembler in punch cards).
I remember a Saturday making punch cards. I was probably five. He must have had an assignment due. He was back in grad school and still working full time. He's got stories about manually editing paper tape.
The author was using Fortran on punch cards and considered himself lucky [Enter: three more Yorkshiremen ...]