At 09:18 +0800 3/4/03, Mark Secker wrote:
these years later I can't even remember the command.... actually
despite 3 solid years of UNIX after 15 years of not using it all I
can remember is kill, pwd & ls. Guess I'd probably have to say the
same about COBOL.
Be afraid - your opportunity to relearn COBOL, now on a Mac OS X
platform, could be just around the corner :-)
<http://www.thekompany.com/products/kobol/>
--
Andrew Nielsen
like going back in to a haunted house in a B grade horror movie there
are some things you just shouldn't return to :)
There was, around the early/mid 90's, a PC COBOL program that had
some degree of success - we tried it at WACAE for a few small
projects. I heard rumors of a version for mac but never, thankfully,
saw such a beast.
Actually I guess one could argue for the rehabilitation of COBOL
("rehabilitation of COBOL " - sounds like some Stalin era term)....
if, as they say it's object oriented, and also if it supported
relational/OO databases, does screen stuff without resorting to CICS
mapping.... noooooo the painful memories... next it will be IBM JCL
(Job Control Language) & Report Writer for OSX then some one will
bring out a OSX driver for a punched card reader and I'll be having
post traumatic stress flash backs!!
The Horror... The Horror
now I remember why I embraced the mac and loved hypercard and File
Maker Pro the first time I saw them...
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Mark Secker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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ECEL Computer Support Officer, University of Western Australia.
CRICOS Provider No. 00126G
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"... the pupil is never educated to the degree of consciousness, but
only to the degree of trust and reverence, and a child is not made a
man, but kept a child."
Henry David Thoreau
"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving
safely in one pretty and well preserved piece, but to skid across
the line broadside, thoroughly used up, worn out, leaking oil,
shouting GERONIMO"
Hunter S Thompson(?)
