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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > Is there a wage gap?
 
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NovemberMike
Dec 28, 2008

Lyesh posted:

ENIAC programs look like this:



That's completely hosed up and insane, but it's recognizable as something even more basic than machine code. These programs were written by women who had degrees in math and were able to calculate ballistics equations by hand. If you want to call that menial, then you can't get away with calling this not menial:



I'm not sure you understand what menial is. This isn't a pissing contest, I've had to do that sort of thing before in processor design classes. It's not particularly hard, it's detail oriented and you have to be trained in it but it's the sort of trained monkey thing we typically do once these days and then write a program to handle it from there. It's like old school human computers, we got rid of them when we could get electronic computers to do the same thing.

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