Bill, Who makes FORMAC ? Haven't heard of that one.
Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD > On Jan 17, 2014, at 9:49 AM, DASDBILL2 <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 >>
