Rick Someone earlier mentioned he preferred plug boards which was the rationale for RPG I believe.
A colleague who tended to System 3 customers sometime in the early '70s had one of those pretend parchment slips of paper with fancy script pinned to the wall next to his desk. It said "If it can't be done in RPG, are you sure it's worth doing?" Chris Mason ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick Fochtman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: <IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU> Sent: Tuesday, 16 January, 2007 3:46 PM Subject: Re: Special characters in passwords was Re: RACF - Password rules . > Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: > > >In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > >on 01/10/2007 > > at 01:26 PM, "McKown, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > > > > > >>Java! Java! Java! No, wait. Perl! Perl! Perl! Uh, make that Ruby! > >>Ruby! Ruby! OK, old-timers repeat after me COBOL! COBOL! COBOL! > >> > >> > > > >COMMTRAN! COMMTRAN! COMMTRAN! FACT! FACT! FACT! > > > > > > > RPG! RPG! RPG! FORTRAN! FORTRAN! FORTRAN! > > JOVIAL FOREVER!!!!! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
