From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: imp at bsdimp.com (Warner Losh) Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2021 18:11:25 -0700 Subject: [COFF] [TUHS] The 2038 bug... In-Reply-To: <20210117010943.GC27899@mcvoy.com> References: <20210108013935.GE91075@eureka.lemis.com> <20210117010943.GC27899@mcvoy.com> Message-ID: On Sat, Jan 16, 2021, 6:09 PM Larry McVoy wrote: > On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 12:07:14PM +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote: > > On Fri, 8 Jan 2021, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > > > > >Heh. In 1973 I was once required to abandon assembler, the language of > > >Real Programmers, and write a program in COBOL (in fact, a database > front > > >end to COBOL). I took revenge in the label names. From > > >http://www.lemis.com/grog/src/GOPU > > > > My favourite COBOL statement is "ADD A TO B GIVING C COMPUTATIONAL > ROUNDED". > > I am _so_ glad I never had to learn COBOL. I appreciate terseness, COBOL > is not that. > Object oriented COBOL never took off because "ADD 1 TO COBOL GIVING COBOL." didn't roll off the tongue. Warner _______________________________________________ > COFF mailing list > COFF at minnie.tuhs.org > https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/coff > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: