I found the announcement video ( https://youtu.be/HSVgHlSTPYQ ) amusing, in that the "kid" making the announcement morphed COBOL into COBOLT (consistently).
@bakerjd99 - Agree with your sentiment about long overdue kudos for the workhorses of the previous century. > On 2020Apr 6, at 10:36, John Baker <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
