Can't resist: The Call of the West
Eccles: The wagon train with your wife on board has been attacked by the Indians! Captain: My wife? Is she safe? Eccles: Yeah. Captain: I never did like them Indians. Lt. Hern: Did they follow you? Eccles: Yeah. They were shooting at me all the time. But I just stuck my tongue out at them. Lt. Hern: Get wounded? Eccles: Yeah. Lt. Hern: Where? Eccles: In the tongue. On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 6:18 PM Wayne Bickerdike <[email protected]> wrote: > People seem to identify as "modern" what they learned at University. > > I didn't attend a University, at the time it was a Polytechnic. We learned > Fortran on an ICL machine (no idea what model). > > I thought programming was not for me based on what we were taught, rather > for the next man. > > Reminds me of the line in the Goons: > > Bloodnot : " I'm saner than the next man! " > > Eccles: "Little does he know, I'm the next man." > > A couple of years later I was poring over the IBM Orientation manuals, > gazing out of the window thinking "what have I done". > > > > > > > On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 7:44 AM Charles Mills <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Funny, isn’t it? >> >> COBOL (née 1959) is 61 years old. It’s a very old language. >> >> C (née 1972) is 48 years old. It’s a modern language. >> >> Charles >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On >> Behalf Of Rob Schramm >> Sent: Saturday, April 25, 2020 1:56 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: Cobol >> >> So age-ist to comment on C's age. >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN >> > > > -- > Wayne V. Bickerdike > > -- Wayne V. Bickerdike ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
