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minus-squareLEDZeppelin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up34arrow-down2·11 months agoTurns out it’s Java
minus-squarejustastranger@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·11 months agoBack when they didn’t have virtual machines so they had to hand-transpile it into Fortran and encode that onto punch slabs to put in their stone computers
minus-squareEtterra@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·11 months agoExcept that it was so long ago that they were still using Onetran.
Turns out it’s Java
Back when they didn’t have virtual machines so they had to hand-transpile it into Fortran and encode that onto punch slabs to put in their stone computers
Except that it was so long ago that they were still using Onetran.