I was self employed at the time and doing a good bit of custom programming. Our business insurance company threatened to drop us if we didn’t stop offering programming services (fear of Y2K bug legal issues). For a small shop we could only find one company to offer us insurance and they wanted $30,000 per $1,000,000 in coverage per year. One contract we were negotiating required us to carry a $3,000,000 policy. When we included the insurance cost in our bid, we were immediately cut and we stopped offering programming services. That is when I started making the switch to networking.
Webster From: Vicky Spelshaus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Hello world? Hey me too... only on an AS/400. Haven't written a line of code either in over 15 years, though I did think about going to the highest bidder when all the code had to be rewritten for Y2K On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Webster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Since I cut my teeth on COBOL on an IBM 360/25: 000100 IDENTIFICATION DIVISION. 000200 PROGRAM-ID. HELLOWORLD. 000300 000400* 000500 ENVIRONMENT DIVISION. 000600 CONFIGURATION SECTION. 000700 SOURCE-COMPUTER. IBM-360-I25. (Webster: we had an advanced 360 with 512K of core) 000800 OBJECT-COMPUTER. IBM-360-I25. 000900 001000 DATA DIVISION. 001100 FILE SECTION. 001200 100000 PROCEDURE DIVISION. 100100 100200 MAIN-LOGIC SECTION. 100300 BEGIN. 100400 DISPLAY " " LINE 1 POSITION 1 ERASE EOS. 100500 DISPLAY "Hello world!" LINE 15 POSITION 10. 100600 STOP RUN. 100700 MAIN-LOGIC-EXIT. 100800 EXIT. Since I no longer have a COBOL compiler, and one did not come with Visual Studio 2008, I will have to trust my memory on this. But it has been 19 years and 10 months since I wrote a single line of COBOL <sniff, sniff>. Webster From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Hello world? "Hello world!" I don't think most people would've gotten that it was PowerShell. So, I made a conscious decision to use C. ☺ Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com <http://theessentialexchange.com/> From: Webster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Hello world? ??? That is not PowerShell! ☺ From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 8:46 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Hello world? void main() { Puts ("Hello world!\n"); } Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com <http://theessentialexchange.com/> From: Andy Shook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 9:41 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Hello world? ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
