I had two months with ALGOL 60, two months with FORTRAN, then 48 years with Assembler punctuated by one day with FORMAC and one day with RPG. FORMAC was a cool superset of PL/1 that supported variables with thousands of decimal places of accuracy. Bill Fairchild
----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Lost" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2014 6:15:05 PM Subject: Re: Carmine Cannatello's book Same here, Computer Ops, Production control and then into System Admin. I say admin because I don't actually code anything. Just JCL, SMP/e and some rexx. Maybe one day I can count myself among the few and chosen true Sysprogs :-p On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 5:46 PM, Scott Ford <[email protected]> wrote: > Operations into systems programming > > Scott ford > www.identityforge.com > from my IPAD > > > > > > On Jan 15, 2014, at 5:53 PM, Gord Tomlin < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > >> On 2014-01-15 17:17, Tony Thigpen wrote: > >> (Most Mainframe assembler programmers did time as a COBOL programmer.) > > > > Interesting assertion. The majority of systems programmers I know did > > not come from an applications programming background. Personally, I've > > only written one COBOL program since university, which means it's the > > only one I wrote without using a keypunch. > > > > -- > > > > Regards, Gord Tomlin > > Action Software International > > (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) > > Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 >
