John, Yeah, there are still a ton of Cobol shops and not many young bucks and does wanting to learn it ..sorry play on words
Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD 'Infinite wisdom through infinite means' > On Sep 29, 2013, at 9:45 PM, John McKown <[email protected]> wrote: > > I guess that good to know. And I can sort of see it, from what little I > remember of Turbo Pascal and Delphi, and a brief flirtation with Modula II. > I've only had the GCC Ada compiler, and I don't really know how standard it > is. But I don't think that Ada took off any better than PL/I did. So much > for either of them being the "one language to rule them all". On z/OS, > COBOL still seems to be King (at least in terms of number of lines of > customer code). On UNIX, C/C++ seems to still the be the main winner, but > with a large retinue of others (Perl, Python, Ruby, ...). On Windows, well > I plead ignorance and apathy: I don't know and I don't care. I despise > MS-Windows. As is likely well known by now. > > > On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 8:46 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> In >> <caajsdjhovrtxbmxk+bhdqwookpp7_h3z4mtthsyoyzyjfnj...@mail.gmail.com>, >> on 09/26/2013 >> at 09:10 AM, John McKown <[email protected]> said: >> >>> "Ada is PL/I trying to be Smalltalk. -- Codoso diBlini >> >> Actually Ada comes from the Pascal tradition and is quite at variance >> with PL/I. >> >> -- >> Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT >> ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> >> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. >> (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > -- > I have _not_ lost my mind! It is backed up on a flash drive somewhere. > > Maranatha! <>< > John McKown > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
