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Originally posted by Joeaksa
Hmmm.... I was a punch card programmer in my day. Fortran, Cobol on an old IBM 360.
The CPU was at 90% most of the time and so were we! 
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That makes two of us Joe. Occasionally would explain to our fresh out of college programmers how we programmed "back in the day" in the 60's and 70's and their general reaction was you've got to be joking. I got into programming because the USAF said you gonna be a programmer boy .. had never even seen a computer much less used one.
As to todays programmers being "efficiency freaks" or "get it done" I think it has always been that way to an extent but definitely got much worse with the advent of fast workstations and instant turn-around in the 70's.