I managed to avoid COBOL when I was doing my degree and A-Levels, but from
some onscure reason it was replaced with LISP. Not that I can remember a
damn thing of course - all those parentheses hurt my brain :(
And I always found Pascal to be a problem too, but Delphi makes it very nice
now lol...
: Whitespace Readability (was Abbreviation for
javascript (??))
: I managed to avoid COBOL when I was doing my degree and A-Levels, but from
: some onscure reason it was replaced with LISP. Not that I can remember a
: damn thing of course - all those parentheses hurt my brain :(
:
: And I always found
- Original Message -
From: Ross Clutterbuck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 4:50 AM
Subject: [wdvltalk] Re: Whitespace Readability (was Abbreviation for
javascript (??))
I managed to avoid COBOL when I was doing my degree and A-Levels, but from
some
- Original Message -
From: Ross Clutterbuck
I personally think that whitespace and readable markup
is vitally important.
Well me too, except in this case where the guy has a page with 1,000 links
on it that has to fit within a very tight memory chunk to be streamed by an
AS400 server.
COBOL, BASIC, Bj, those are old ones. BASIC wasn't too bad, but I had
nightmares when I was learning COBOL to get my degree way back when. It
was so very confusing in the beginning. After I got the hang of it, and
understood it better, it wasn't bad at all.
I understand that there are
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 16:44:28 -0700, jdmajor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I understand that there are companies still using COBOL.
'Round 'bout these here parts'... the governments still using it. I
know COBOL programmers pulling down 200k/yr before bonuses. I hate
COBOL. stupid dollar signs...
