On 24 Jan 2001, at 16:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 10:06:50AM -0600, David Douthitt scribbled:
> > I also noticed that our activity is at 79% - not shabby! Of course,
> > for comparison, the Tiny COBOL page is at 0% :)
>
> I thought 'Tiny COBOL' was an oxymoron..but then, I don't know
> anything about cobol.
COBOL was part of my schooling (three classes worth) - I never
minded learning it, though without a "skeleton" of a program to
start with it was difficult to get started on a new program. I always
had to look up file handling every time (sigh).
Anybody who complains vigorously about writing COBOL should be
forced to write RPG code for a year :) I never disliked COBOL like
some others; then I wrote RPG. First language I ever disliked -
truly writeonly, and requires a COMPUTER to write code (sigh). I
can grind out passable C / Perl / Ruby / FORTH / COBOL / shell
code on a napkin - RPG? Forget it....
Sorry for the rant :-)
I always wonder about tinycob.lrp every now and then :-)
--
David Douthitt
UNIX Systems Administrator
HP-UX, Linux, Unixware
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