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09-19-2013, 10:07 PM | #63 |
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I've heard this before, but it left me scratching my head for a while, trying to remember what it means. I'm thinking it means that someone would complain because a new rope is stiff and rough, and therefore uncomfortable, rather than supple and smooth like an old rope. Even though they would be dead soon after. Is that correct?
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Can't match that one, and wouldn't, anyway, but I can say that I started out with 80-column punch cards on an IBM 360/70, not long after your Burroughs' days. Ah....the good old days, LOL! Yowza, hearing some names from my past...COBOL, Fortran...man. I could have sworn I saw another post around here, from...somebody...that I was going to respond to, and now I can't find it. Ah, well. I've certainly put enough of my $.02 in on this thread, anyway, as there's nothing happy happening here. As someone said (the post I was seeking--was it mrmikel?), this is a mare's nest. Hitch |
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Though I started messing with computers about the same time (1965-66), it was always through a terminal. There was a terminal at my high school which we programed in telcomp/BASIC going to a terminal at Bolt Braneck and Newman in Boston. We used to weekly try to divide by zero just to see the **CRASH** message come back!
The whole problem with any successful program is that eventually it gets so big and so interdependent that keeping it going without wrecking another section gets difficult. Doitsu in a different thread was right in saying that for us amateurs anyway, Sigil is pretty near complete. I don't know of anything it really needs for our use. Maybe the focus should be on plug ins for Sigil to carry out the functions that are missing. That would require infinitely less work and no chance of blowing up the main program to implement features. They don't need to be in any particular language either, so long it is executable by the computer. |
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I have never seen COBOL mentioned in the Netherlands, ever. It's a 50 year old programming language that has been out of use since forever (in IT terms), except for some very special, very old software that needs to keep running for some very special reason. |
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Yup, they are looking for a young person, so they can pay them nothing, with 50 years experience in technologies that came out yesterday.
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I've never seen COBOL in use anywhere. Of course I had some familiarity with BASIC back when the TRS-80 was still in use.
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Anybody can read COBOL. It was designed to be read by managers after all -- writing a COBOL program, now... that's another story. And writing a COBOL compiler -- well, that was my job, along with about half a dozen other people, about 40 years ago. Unfortunately, the whole CDC STAR system was dropped before it shipped.
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