$640.00 to fill the tanks...

On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 19:26:58 -0400, Bob Noel
wrote:
Man, I could have, but really couldn't stand to do COBOL...

I took COBOL in college and I could do it if I *had* to, but I really
hate the language... I've yet to find a company stupid enough to pay
me the amount of money that it would take to entice me to program in
COBOL...

"I might not be cheap, but I *can* be bought"

On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 03:48:14 GMT, Grumman-581
wrote:

On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 19:26:58 -0400, Bob Noel
wrote:
Man, I could have, but really couldn't stand to do COBOL...

I took COBOL in college and I could do it if I *had* to, but I really
hate the language... I've yet to find a company stupid enough to pay
me the amount of money that it would take to entice me to program in
COBOL...
I took CS instead of CIS so I didn't have to take Cobol, but that
meant I ended up with a minor in math. :-))

If they'd pay me what I was offered on the last job I'd learn Cobol.
Course it'd be OJT.:-))

Let's see...If I can stick around to help out at 2038, at 108 I'd be
the world's oldest programmer in addition to the World's oldest
Debonair pilot.

"I might not be cheap, but I *can* be bought"

That's: "I may be easy, but I ain't cheap!"
Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com

On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 04:43:30 -0400, Roger
wrote:
I took CS instead of CIS so I didn't have to take Cobol, but that
meant I ended up with a minor in math. :-))

I was a CS major also... COBOL was one of the few languages that I
hadn't taken, so I figured I might as well take it for an easy 'A'...
About the only time I came to class was for the tests... My minor also
ended up being in Math...

Let's see...If I can stick around to help out at 2038, at 108 I'd be
the world's oldest programmer in addition to the World's oldest
Debonair pilot.

I won't exactly be a spring chicken at that time either, but I don't
really have any other plans, so I might as well stay alive... I
suspect that Darwin might have other plans for me though... I've
cheated him too many times over the years and I suspect that he's
starting to get ****ed... Hell, if I had known that I would have lived
this long, I might not have done all the adrenaline inducing things in
my youth that now gives me nice reminders whenever the weather
changes... Oh well, life sucks, but the alternative is not that great
either...

Grumman-581 wrote:
On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 19:26:58 -0400, Bob Noel
wrote:
Man, I could have, but really couldn't stand to do COBOL...

I took COBOL in college and I could do it if I *had* to, but I really
hate the language... I've yet to find a company stupid enough to pay
me the amount of money that it would take to entice me to program in
COBOL...

How funny....I took FORTRAN and half the people in the class complained
that COBOL wasn't offered as an entry-level class. No accounting for
taste in programming languages, I guess.

How funny....I took FORTRAN and half the people in the class complained that COBOL wasn't offered as an entry-level class. No accounting for taste in programming languages, I guess.

FORTRAN has single-handedly set science back ten years. The same is
true for HTML and the web.

Jose
--
The monkey turns the crank and thinks he's making the music.
for Email, make the obvious change in the address.

Jose wrote:
How funny....I took FORTRAN and half the people in the class
complained that COBOL wasn't offered as an entry-level class. No
accounting for taste in programming languages, I guess.

FORTRAN has single-handedly set science back ten years. The same is
true for HTML and the web.

Jose
Oh, but it's so much fun to watch people's faces when I tell them I know
FORTRAN.

On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 01:13:45 GMT, Jose
wrote:
FORTRAN has single-handedly set science back ten years. The same is
true for HTML and the web.

Compared to what else was available at the time, it was good... Of
course, it doesn't have the character of APL... evil-grin

Jose wrote:
How funny....I took FORTRAN and half the people in the class
complained that COBOL wasn't offered as an entry-level class. No
accounting for taste in programming languages, I guess.


FORTRAN has single-handedly set science back ten years. The same is
true for HTML and the web.

Howso?

Matt

Grumman-581 wrote:

On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 01:13:45 GMT, Jose
wrote:

FORTRAN has single-handedly set science back ten years. The same is
true for HTML and the web.


Compared to what else was available at the time, it was good... Of
course, it doesn't have the character of APL... evil-grin


You forgot the "s" on character. :-)

Matt

On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 01:13:45 GMT, Jose
wrote:

How funny....I took FORTRAN and half the people in the class complained that COBOL wasn't offered as an entry-level class. No accounting for taste in programming languages, I guess.

FORTRAN has single-handedly set science back ten years. The same is
true for HTML and the web.

Followed by structured programming,, Yourdon, data-flow analysis, and
OOP. While on the hardware side, it was the RISC/CISC wars, VLIW, and
now multi-core mumbo jumbo. Along the way lie the bones of Control
Data, DEC, Data General, Amdahl, Pyramid, Chromatics, SGI, Daisy,
Apollo, etc. While we still have the animated skeletons of HP and Sun.

We've probably been set back 200 years by the lot 'em.

Did'ya see yesterdays news where the Cray at Oak Ridge is up to 54
TFLOPS?

Don