re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#11 Article for the boss: COBOL will outlive us all
more cobol related trivia ... other spin-offs from the science center were companies that started offerring cp67 as commercial online service ... recent post in a.f.c http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#56 regarding RAMIS, NOMAD, FOCUS, etc ... i.e. original 4th gen languages ... all done on virtual machine (cp67 or vm370 based) online services nomad wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomad_software from above: Another example of Nomad's power is illustrated by Nicholas Rawlings in his comments for the Computer History Museum about NCSS (see citation below). He reports that James Martin asked Rawlings for a Nomad solution to a standard problem Martin called the Engineer's Problem: "give 6% raises to engineers whose job ratings had an average of 7 or better." Martin provided a "dozen pages of COBOL, and then just a page or two of Mark IV, from Informatics." Rawlings offered the following single statement, performing a set-at-a-time operation, to show how trivial this problem was with Nomad: CHANGE ALL SALARY=SALARY*1.06 WHERE POSITION='ENG' AND AVG(INSTANCE(RATING)) GE 7 ... snip ... other trivia was that the original relational/sql was also done on vm370 ... mentioned in this recent post http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#32 REFRPROT History Question -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
