Regarding the OP's post, "It is a tale
 Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury
 Signifying nothing."

I did, however, learn something new:

http://blogs.westword.com/latestword/2013/10/best_neckbeards_in_history_andr
ew_luck.php

David de Jongh

-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [mailto:[email protected]]
On Behalf Of Kirk Talman
Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2014 8:17 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Another Article On Lagging Mainframe Skills

IBM Mainframe Assembler List <[email protected]> wrote on
03/27/2014 01:29:21 AM:

> From: skg <[email protected]>

> I'm sure some Perl programmer can even come up with a 1-liner, capable
of
> operating a nuclear reactor.

I'm sure it was done w/APL, so would that be a port?

The difficulty of using languages of that sort is that when you are done,
your score from management might be adverse if based on lines of code.
Like material from a black hole, it makes interesting conversation, but
doesn't sell well at Walmart.

> Neckbeards,

I had not heard that putdown before.  I wonder if Zeus used it?

- grumpy old man

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