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]
> Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 9:24 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> 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]
> Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 10:11 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> 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?
>
>
>
> Shook
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/andyshook
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