It was an era. Everything evolution in live.
I did 8 years in cobol programming, a little bit hard to code, but you get
use to.
No complaint
Ramon E. Estevez
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De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]En nombre de Oweson Flynn
Enviado el: Friday, 31 August, 2001 10:22 AM
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Asunto: RE: database consistency tools ?
Hi,
<Donning fire-proof suit>
I did a year's worth of COBOL at a large bank.
I would rather walk around companies selling sandwiches than code in COBOL
again!
I used to be a fair 'C' programmer, with a touch of Pascal / APL and
assembler (even wrote a floating point library for an 8087), and can write a
tidy bit of PL/SQL ...
In all the large corporates I have worked in, the Cobol departments have
been incredibly structured/rigis (adding a column to a table took 6 working
days, AFTER rrhe request had been filled out in triplacte and authorused
...)
</end of flame>
Regards
Oweson Flynn
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Rachel,
Whats wrong with COBOL. I programmed with it in the early 70's and last I
heard the "root" module I write is still in use today(payroll for a Fortune
100 company). Later in life I programmed in INFORMIX 4GL on a DataPoint
server. It was replaced with an IBM 360 and they never got the application
to run as fast as the original.
ROR mª¿ªm
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hm, watch your back at IOUGA next year Joe :)
I am up there amongst the more "seasoned" members of this list.
I even (sh, don't tell anyone) programmed in COBOL.
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