From: dave at horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [COFF] COBOL.
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2020 08:24:36 +1000 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2004140818410.1535@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEoi9W4q_88_funFtmKe48Hk731z018+8bO1wd5k1sv54RgKug@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, 13 Apr 2020, Dan Cross wrote:
> So I imagine that most readers of this list have heard that a number of
> US states are actively looking for COBOL programmers.
I have no plans to move to the US :-) To this day "ADD A TO B GIVING C
COMPUTATIONAL ROUNDED" still leaves me cold.
And it's been said that one of the reasons for COBOL was that
dumb-as-whatever bosses could see what their programmers were writing...
Their job is to manage, not to spy. Heck, they measured productivity by
lines of code per day; you want lots of lines? Sure, I can do that!
-- Dave
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2020-04-13 17:59 crossd
2020-04-13 18:09 `
2020-04-13 19:30 ` crossd
2020-04-13 22:22 ` krewat
2020-04-13 20:40 ` clemc
2020-04-13 21:27 ` thomas.paulsen
2020-04-13 22:24 ` dave [this message]
2020-04-13 22:28 ` lm
2020-04-13 23:58 ` clemc
2020-04-14 9:24 ` skogtun
2020-04-14 10:06 ` dave
2020-04-14 8:18 ` wobblygong
2020-04-14 16:11 ` cym224
2020-04-15 6:58 ` thomas.paulsen
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