On Wed, 6 Aug 2008 10:05:05 -0400, Joe Aulph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>++"David J. Farber, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon
>University, said using Cobol was roughly ++equivalent to having “a
>television with vacuum tubes.” "
>
>Mr Farber was probably teaching Pascal ( a widely used business programming
>language) when the rest of were in the trenches and probably couldn't find
>his way out of a BCT loop....   errrr...  excuse me ---  a PERFORM VARRYING
>loop.
>
>Joe  Aulph,
>
>Senior Systems Programmer:
>850-487-8945
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>


Send him a note and tell him how you feel.

Scott Barry
SBBWorks, Inc.

David Farber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/ 

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