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Older than that..FORTRAN and PL-1 !!!

(working from decks of punch cards in the late 60s..)

The jobs would line up and be run at night. On one, which I remember was a simple modulus of elasticity program, the engineer forgot to put an "end of run" card. Thing ran for hours. In real life, what would have been a bending problem would have been a coil!! Held up other jobs and led to a 36 hour marathon. Thank heavens for modern computers!!
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