[thelist] Teach Old Programmer New Tricks

[Hassan Schroeder]

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 5:20 PM, T. R. Valentine <trvalentine at gmail.com> wrote:

> It may surprise some people, but there is still a lot of COBOL code
> still in use.

It's just not the same without the punch cards, man.

/* speaking as someone whose first job in the computer business
    was as an IBM CE ("customer engineer") fixing keypunches, and
    who has also actually done some COBOL programming, though
    never in anger.  :-)
 */

But good point, definitely!

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