On Wednesday 15 April 2009 11:50:59 Dave Newton wrote: > Wes Wannemacher wrote: > > Dave, if I have to fire up TDP even once to support a COBOL plugin, we > > won't be friends any more :) > > > > // only 31, but has written COBOL in my day > > *laughs and points* > > Two gigs ago has a *large* amount of code written in COBOL. IIRC some of > our service calls out of Java were to COBOL code doing mysterious things > to OS/390 DB2 data. > > At one point I had a CSS theme for one of our apps that mimicked > old-school terminals a la GMail theme; was teh funny but apparently I > was the only one that thought so. >
I really think that unless you have perspective which comes from outside the classroom and computer history books you can't appreciate it. Programming has changed so much that nowadays it seems like everything is a variation of C. Picking up a language seems easy, but if you've ever had to deal with a line editor or read 80+ pages of compiler output from a dot matrix, then and only then can you appreciate how easy our job is. As another side note that some of you might appreciate, my previous gig at AOL started as a job working for CompuServe. Does anyone still have a PPN? I've met and am linkedin with guys that are still quite fluent working with their 36bit hosts :) Unfortunately, I lost my PPN when I left, but would have gladly paid monthly fees just to say I still have one. I am truly fascinated with legacy systems and love to learn them when I have the chance. -Wes -- Wes Wannemacher Author - Struts 2 In Practice Includes coverage of Struts 2.1, Spring, JPA, JQuery, Sitemesh and more http://www.manning.com/wannemacher --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@struts.apache.org
