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Punched cards were the only way to program when I was at college in early 70's, and that in Fortran.
The computer was locked away in a large room and the programs took a week to return, often for corrections (and then a further week). I'm surprised anyone got any sensible programming training, I know I didn't......
It's interesting looking at the results of the poll as to how many can touch type.
At work we went from pen/pencil/paper (we had trained telegraphists to send documents out via teleprinter) to wordprocessors literally overnight, without training in typing skills. We were scientists, it was deemed not necessary.
In 25 years, and many dozens of colleagues later, I can recall only one who could touchtype correctly, and that was in the last 5 years. Many remained one/two finger, and always looking at the keyboard.
Interestingly speed was not necessarily compromised by the use of "only" two fingers .....
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