On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 10:44:13PM -0500, R. Anthony Lomartire wrote: > So I recently landed a job working in COBOL on HP-UX. It's been a trip! > This stuff is from before my time but it's been really interesting to > learn. Have any of you folks worked with this stuff? We're looking to > migrate away eventually, maybe anyone with experience there? I'd love to > hear any stories about COBOL or old enterprise mainframe applications > you've worked with. We're probably going to be hiring soon too if anyone > would be interested in a similar gig. :)
I was unable to avoid working in COBOL entirely. I try not to remember. Still.. way back when (in the before time, in the long-long ago) one of my co-employees at a contract shop I worked for was a big COBOL fan, even though he was young (just out of high school as I recall) and COBOL was passe even then. He wrote an assembler using it. And several games including, I think, Conway's game of life (*). Not much of a story, I know. -mm- (*)which can be written in anything, I suppose, even TECO. _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
