So can we blame COBOL for the head-up-the-anterior response we're enjoying in the confused states of America?
Just kidding - any program that operates with minimal changes for decades has to be respected. The old COBOLians are finally getting long overdue kudos. For my social distancing command bunker - Cheers On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 11:12 AM 'Jim Russell' via Chat <[email protected]> wrote: > Many years ago, I prided myself on my COBOL skills; at one point I had > about 50 COBOL programmers working for three supervisors in the COBOL > coding shop I managed. > > When I worked more recently for a then quite new Government agency, I was > distressed to find that the Personnel/Payroll systems were all COBOL based, > still relying on fixed position ascii records. > > > On Apr 6, 2020, at 12:50 PM, Skip Cave <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Why Covid-19 has resulted in New Jersey desperately needing COBOL > > programmers. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- John D. Baker [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
