From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dave at horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall) Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2020 08:24:36 +1000 (EST) Subject: [COFF] COBOL. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: 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