On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Vince O'Sullivan <[email protected]>wrote:
> > Blimey! Are they still in business. If I try really hard I can just > about remember my first programming job - writing in Microfocus Cobol. > > "IF RATE IS NOT GREATER THAN OR EQUAL TO 5 THEN" ... > > beats "if r < 5" any day. > I first used Micro Focus COBOL back in 1991. The company I worked for had millions of lines of COBOL running on a PR1ME minicomputer. Most of that code had originally been written in the 60's, and maintained over the years. I got the chore of taking a good chunk of that code and making it work with the MF compiler so we could move into the PC market with our software. That was loads of fun, especially since the guy who wrote all that code was close to 90 years old and was the meanest SOB I've ever met. He also hated PCs and thought they were a fad. You can imagine how "helpful" he was when I had a question. Joey -- Blog: http://joeygibson.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/joeygibson FriendFeed: http://friendfeed.com/joeygibson --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
