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TechBear_Seattle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-15-06 09:28 AM Original message |
Celebrating the creator of Cobol (sic) |
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ChairmanAgnostic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-15-06 09:31 AM Response to Original message |
1. many many years ago, I moved from fortran to COBOL |
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Rabrrrrrr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-15-06 09:33 AM Response to Original message |
2. Damned COBOL. Always dragging our mainframe down to molasses speed |
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meegbear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-15-06 09:40 AM Response to Original message |
3. Happy Birthday Grace ... |
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TechBear_Seattle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-15-06 09:44 AM Response to Reply #3 |
5. You are mean! |
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PDittie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-15-06 09:40 AM Response to Original message |
4. Computer science in the Seventies |
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TechBear_Seattle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-15-06 09:45 AM Response to Reply #4 |
6. And when you really wanted to be nasty... |
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valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-15-06 09:46 AM Response to Original message |
7. If the journalist was clever, he would have written the article in |
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Frank Cannon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-15-06 09:51 AM Response to Original message |
8. I'd rather celebrate the creator of Kobol |
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TechBear_Seattle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-15-06 10:00 AM Response to Reply #8 |
9. Mormons! In! Spaaaaaaace! |
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rock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-15-06 10:23 AM Response to Original message |
10. COBOL has been very very good to me |
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YankeyMCC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-15-06 11:08 AM Response to Original message |
11. What's a BSG thread doing in the Science forum? |
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Speck Tater (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-15-06 11:16 AM Response to Original message |
12. In my early days of programming, back in the early 1960's... |
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sinkingfeeling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-15-06 11:54 AM Response to Original message |
13. Here's to COBOL! Learned it in about 1970, so I guess I was late to it! |
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drm604 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-15-06 05:00 PM Response to Original message |
14. I remember punching JCL and COBOL into punch cards |
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fedsron2us (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-15-06 05:32 PM Response to Original message |
15. Sexism is alive and well and living within IT |
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eppur_se_muova (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-15-06 05:55 PM Response to Original message |
16. Brits, for some reason, don't like all caps, hence Cobol, not COBOL. |
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TechBear_Seattle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-16-06 12:26 AM Response to Reply #16 |
17. I've noticed that too, but it strikes me as very odd |
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eppur_se_muova (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-16-06 06:41 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. LOL! I didn't even think of that! nt |
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Book Lover (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-17-06 01:05 AM Response to Reply #17 |
19. BBC is three letters; Aids, Colbol, etc, are four or more |
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jody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-21-06 06:56 PM Response to Original message |
20. Sorry but Hopper was not the inventor of COBOL. I wonder why that myth keeps on going |
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